Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constantly meeting travelers who . . . are puzzled that Italians gossip in their churches, kiss behind a pillar, spit in the aisles . . . wheel a bicycle in one door and out another. These observers are equally shocked by the sight of unshaven friars with faces like pirates, begging nuns in the capital of Christendom, gaudy and grubby dolls, tinsel bambinos, baby Virgins and the like in lovely quattrocento churches cheek by jowl with exquisite sculpture; and when I say that I find these bambinos both horrible and funny, even this will probably shock; as if religion were not sometimes so funny that...
...believer who has passed through the excavated necropolis, who has observed how its street leads directly below the foundations of the first southern bronze pillar of the Bernini altar, and thus into the immediate vicinity of the place assigned by Christian tradition to St. Peter's tomb, succumbs to the silent but eloquent logic of his surroundings. Certainly the discoveries so far made constitute a solid basis for serious discussion on the question which occupies so many minds. Those who believe in the Catholic tradition of St. Peter's burial place below the church will, in the light...
West Side mistress (Gardner) and his perfect wife (Stanwyck), a pillar of the fashionable East Side. Everything is straightened out by a bit-player who appears long enough to strangle Miss Gardner and leave her priceless body snarled in some priceless drapery...
...Jima's greatest asset is leathery, lithe John Wayne. His relaxed acting of a sleepy-eyed, two-fisted he-man (6 ft. 4 in.) has made him a pillar of credibility in many an unlikely blood & thunder epic. Broken in like a good saddle, in 150 pictures over 20 years, his coarse-grained appeal has finally won 42-year-old Actor Wayne a place (according to Showmen's Trade Review) second only to Bob Hope among the U.S. box office's favorite male stars...
Interchangeable Pronouns. After the hail of postwar novels with homosexual themes (The Fall of Valor, Other Voices, Other Rooms, The City and the Pillar), most U.S. readers will hardly need New Directions' radar to detect the trend; but with sophomoric emphasis N.D. XI detects it anyhow in half a dozen inverted short stories and prose fragments. The queen of the queerer pieces is a collection of excerpts from Parisian Jean Genet's lushly symbolic novel, Our Lady of Flowers (explains Editor Laughlin in an introductory note: "Genet uses the pronouns more or less interchangeably...