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...about the world. Born & bred in Norway, he quarrels with his crusty stepfather and flees to England-just in time to run slap into Robin Hood and his merry men and get himself captured by that fine old favorite, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Saved from the scaffold by a pious knight, Andres gets shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots and subterfuge it can be cut with a Damascus blade. And there, jam-bang in the middle of it all, awaiting her true knight, sits the "only one who mattered ... to me ... with...
...purpose in life beyond their immediate cares and worries. The non-Communist world does not have such a sense of mission. There is, therefore, so far an unequal spiritual struggle between it and the Communist world. So long as this is the case, peaceful coexistence must remain a pious hope. For there will always be an uneasy tension in the minds of men afflicted with the widespread malady of purposelessness. They will always feel they are unjustly cheated of something...
Westbrook Pegler got into the act with a pious statement of un-Peglerian mildness: "It is a great tragedy that in this awful hour the people of the U.S. must accept . . . the nasty malice of a President whom Bernard Baruch . . . called a rude, uncouth, ignorant man. Let us pray...
Tammany's cigar-mouthing regulars had been confident that they could capture New York's City Hall just by looking pious and letting nature take its course. Their blueprint for victory was simplicity itself. A disciplined Tammany hand named Vincent Impellitteri, who became temporary mayor after Bill O'Dwyer's hurried resignation, was to smile frequently, keep his mouth shut, fight down ambition, and step back into obscurity when Tammany...
...broadcasting, BBC is not so much dull as different-in purpose, outlook and intention. Unlike U.S. radio, which was born into a competitive jungle and just grew into a brassy-voiced maturity, British radio was cradled in monopoly and spoon-fed throughout its formative years by a pious, iron-willed Scot named John Reith. BBC gave its listeners, not what they wanted, but what Director General Reith thought they needed. To use radio just for entertainment, said Reith, would be a "prostitution of its power" and "an insult to the intelligence of the public...