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...grubby streets of Pasay City, a suburb of Manila, a most unusual group of men gathered last week. They were members of an obscure political sect called Lapiang Malaya (Freedom Movement), and they were armed with long bolo knives and dressed in peculiar blue uniforms with red and yellow capes. At the command of their leader, an old (eightyish) fanatic named Valentin de los Santos, they had come up from their homes in the paddy fields of southern Luzon. Their mission: to march on the presidential palace in Manila and overthrow the government...
...Peculiar Ideologies." Traveling aboard a Portuguese Airways Caravelle, the Pope landed at a military airfield near Monte Real, delivered a short speech on arrival, and rode in an open-topped black Rolls-Royce 25 miles to the Fátima shrine, where he celebrated Mass before a crowd estimated at 700,000. In an address, Paul called for a "united church." At the same time, he issued another warning against what he deems doctrinal excesses in church renewal. The Ecumenical Council, he said, "has opened up new vistas in the field of doctrine." And yet: "What terrible damage could...
...Detroit Free Press ranked them from chippies who settle for a good meal and a night on the town, to street walkers working at the beck of pimps and call of drugs, to expensive suburban call girls who keep Fanny Hill-style notes on their clients' bedroom peculiar ities. Last month the Miami Herald's women's page reported that 40% of the nation's chronic gamblers are women...
...knack for winning battles. And quite as much as Brecht tampered with Shakespeare, Grass has tampered with Brecht. He has made him a patronizing, cynical esthete resigned to the failure of revolution in the world at large, yet committed to its success on stage -- the success of his own peculiar brand of intellectualized revolution on his own stage...
...Tolstoy once wrote, "All happy families resemble each other; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Not so, says Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane, a British play about a family which at curtain's fall is happy, or at least content, in its own very peculiar way. The plot, as summed up in the play's advertising, is this: "Sister wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Brother wants to sleep with Mr. Sloane; Mr. Sloane kicks Dada to death." Hardly the kind of situation which makes for happiness, in the natural order of things. But black comedy...