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Lifted Eyebrow. Not even Godfrey himself can quite explain how he does it. Some students of what the public likes profess to see the answer in the "shine of naturalness" reflected by his use of such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing which led Fred Allen to call Godfrey "the man with the barefoot voice." His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs...
...opening scene is York, excommunicated Queen shortly after Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth. After this step it becomes increasingly difficult and dangerous to profess the Roman Catholic faith in England. "Design for a Stained Glass Window" deals with the effects of this pressure on the convictions of several people in the ten years covered by the play's action. Robin Flemming, a tradesman of York, forswears Catholicism and eventually becomes Earl of Hartford a favorite of Elizabeth. His partner, John Clitherow, a prosperous Anglican merchant, wished to leave others alone and to he left alone, but this turns...
Church inaccurately calls herself Catholic, that is, universal. The Roman Church claims to be the Church. This means that in her eyes there exist no other churches, but only sects ... If we do not profess allegiance to Rome we are out of the fold, no matter how much genuine religion enters into the texture of our life. We belong in the slums of Christianity...
Communists are shifty, and treacherous colleagues, and I do not wish to collaborate with them in any program of political or social action; even when they profess to be working with you on this or that issue, their actions reveal that they have different and incompatible ends in view. Hence I think university presidents are justified in not hiring known Communists, and are justified in firing them in cases where a teacher has clearly sacrificed his freedom to use his own independent judgment. Use of this latter power, however, threatens a flood of abuses; it can only be held...
...spectre of the black panther breeds over the whole tale, moving constantly in the thoughts and dreams of the men, even those who profess not to believe in its existence. However, the author never makes it clear, or even partially clear, what this symbol is supposed to mean. Does it exist only in the minds of the men who fear it, or does it represent a malignant spirit which wants to drive them out of the valley? Whatever his concept of the black panther was, Clark doesn't carry it through. Therefore, one begins to suspect that the black...