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...make his diplomacy stick, Bishop Tu whipped together a tiny army of fervent Roman Catholics, armed with pikes and smuggled rifles. At its head he put Father Quynh, a tough, angular soldier-priest. Father Quynh was no diplomat. "A Catholic in this country betrays his faith if he is not a soldier," he used to say. "To compromise with Communism is treachery. You must fight-it's the only Christian solution...
Even such a high calibre film as On the Waterfront goes overboard when swearing, drowning the tag end of the line, "what the he..." in the blast of an auto horn. Afterwards, when "Go to hell" was not only said but repeated (the priest, to whom it was said, evidently could no more credit his hearing than could the audience) there was the same embarrassed reaction as to Rhett Butler's line. Since stevedores and gangsters had managed without any naughty words during the rest of the picture, when they came it was with surprise...
...attended by a dark old woman, appears, and asks him to bring some pottery to her house. He follows. She brings him tea; she offers him love. He cannot resist. "I never imagined such pleasures existed!" he cries. "You are my slave," she murmurs. At long last, a Buddhist priest frees the potter from her spell, and he turns back homeward. When he reaches home, he finds his wife dead. Only her spirit is there to comfort him, saying, "Go back to work...
Thus the high priest of surrealism, French Poet Andre Breton, once tried to describe the atmosphere of some of the strangest paintings ever created. Last week the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hart ford, Conn, was staging a retrospective show of paintings by Yves Tanguy and his wife, Kay Sage...
...right of all who are baptized Catholics to be accompanied to the tomb by a priest. We cannot lose this right-as one can lose the citizenship of a temporal country-by committing a crime or misdemeanor, for no human can judge another...