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Some are dragged through the door asking for just a little more time. Mussolini (to his executioner): "But . . . but . . . Mr. Colonel." Pope Alexander VI: "I come. It is right. Wait a moment." When a parson told Ethan Allen (a religious man who took Fort Ticonderoga "in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress") that the angels were waiting for him, Allen exploded: "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, God damn 'em, let 'em wait...
...rich Liverpool merchant. To an erratic, explosive brain, he joined (said his doctor) a body "built in the most beautiful proportion . . . head, legs, arms and trunk, all without a flaw, like some ancient Greek statue." Gladstone's first intention was to become a parson: he never quite forgave himself for being so weak as to become a Prime Minister. Religion was not his faith; it was his spouse, and he loved it so passionately that when he felt exhausted he would say quite naturally "not that he wanted to go to bed, but that he wanted...
...dragon poops out and our knight wins." He glibly switched metaphors to tick off one of democracy's own current ailments: to him, Senator Joseph McCarthy may be viewed without hysterical wailing, as "a bad skin disease, rather than a cancer." Inevitably, onetime Presbyterian Parson Thomas reflected on the day-dreamy luxury of turning back the clock: "I am not such an idiot as to say that if I had my life to live over again I would not change it some, but I would not change the main lines. I might have gone further as a Republican...
...platform, Attlee glided into the battle calmly, like a confident parson addressing his flock. The party executive had approved German rearmament only with "serious misgivings," said he, but "I know from experience that you do not get a response from Russia by conciliation." Behind him. Bevan glowered shaggily. Up hopped little, beady-eyed R. W. Casasola, head of the foundry workers, to make the Bevanites' move-a resolution to reverse the Labor executive's position and condemn any sort of German rearmament. Shouted Casasola: "Give the Germans arms, and you are on the sure road to World...
...Americans, out for a shoot in the highlands, happen on a town named Brigadoon. One of them (Gene Kelly) catches fire from a local lass (Cyd Charisse), but when this arson is revealed to the parson, he raises a difficulty. Brigadoon and everyone in it lie under an enchantment. Only one day out of every hundred years can they spend on earth. At midnight the town will disappear until a morning in the year 2054. If the lover stays, he will disappear too. The Americans go sadly back to New York, but after a couple of weeks at the modern...