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Certain individual scenes stand out: Gregory Peck's reading of the 23rd psalm in "David and Bathsheba"; the entire first half of "The Well," which showed a race riot being born; the scene in "A Streetcar Named Desire" where Marlon Brando shouts for his wife after he has beaten her; the ballet sequence that provided the finale for "An American in Paris"; Vincent Price and a boatful of Mexican police sinking into the bay with Price standing in the bow--cloak tossed over his shoulders--in "His Kind of Woman"; Alec Guinness descending the subway steps near...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: From the Pit | 1/10/1952 | See Source »

...being a clever girl, she manages to get shot in the play's last thirty seconds and so doing solves everything. During the three hours in between, she cures old hatreds, converts old bigots, performs minor miracles, and preaches the word of God at a psalm-per-minute rate in one gigantic back-to-the-Lord movement...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

...texts (from the Introit): "And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars" (Apocalypse 12:1) ; "Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: because he hath done wonderful things" (Psalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Mass | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...London's Holborn district, a butcher adorned his empty window with the hand-written text: "Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied. (Psalm 59, Verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: If They Be Not Satisfied | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...keep you, darling, safe from harm wherever you may be"). Also riding high on the spiritual wave: It's No Secret ("what God can do"), by Cowboy-Singer Stuart Hamblen, a recent Billy Graham convert. Columbia has just released a musical version of the 23rd Psalm sung by Vocalist Doris Day. Scheduled: The House Where I Worship, sung by Rosemary Clooney and Guy Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sacred Music | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

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