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...shrine: founded by the Portuguese hermit Feliciano Mendes, and today a Redemptorist mission, it boasts the original cross used by the hermit and a wooden effigy of the Good Jesus renowned for winder-working properties. But only in recent decades have Brazilians recognized that the church itself is a priceless part of the nation's heritage, largely because of the brooding presence of twelve soapstone prophets sculpted for the stairway (see opposite) by Brazil's first great sculptor, Antonio Francisco Lisboa...
...archaeologists. "They are all as poor as church mice," he says, "but such enthusiasm!" They brought him unimpressive things -fragments of charcoal from ancient hearths, or bones of extinct bison-and when he measured the age of the objects, the archaeologists made him feel that he had done something priceless and wonderful for them...
...world in search of rarities, opened his first stamp auction in London in 1918. Harmer sold $56,000 worth of stamps his first season, trebled his business in the next ten years. Among Harmer customers: King George V (who sometimes squeezed the family budget to add to his priceless Commonwealth collection), King Carol II of Rumania, Alfonso XIII of Spain, and Egypt's King Fouad (whose stamps were sold by Harmer after Farouk's abdication). In 1954-55, its biggest year yet, Harmer's British, U.S. and Australian offices sold nearly $2,000,000 worth of stamps...
...cinema cowboy has been coming in for some sharp scrutiny from European critics. Critic Schein detects a sadistic dislike for women: "In The Outlaw, the young man, after prolonged abuse, humiliates the woman by choosing, in a tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...
...infantilism, will take what comfort and maturity he can find from the late Oliver Wendell Holmes's remark that "taxes are what we pay for civilized society." In the contemporary scene purchasable civilization means, mostly, defense against the Communist world revolution. The freedom to be defended is priceless, which is one of the reasons why argument about the price has abated...