Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly dismissed as a Stone Age relic...
...bookbinding and made his modest way by peddling his skill among the booksellers along Paris' Quai de la Tournelle. In 1952 Zizi died. A year later, Carol followed her to the grave. Their son Mircea, 35, was left alone with a baby son, who was, like Mircea, the relic of an impulsive and broken marriage...
...particular. Wrote De Kruif: "[I was] sold a bill of goods, that the ancient, close, personal relation between doctors and their patients-that's the pride and the unique distinction of family physicians-was no longer necessary . . . The good old family doctor? He'd soon be a relic, replaced by integrated groups of specialists, all streamlined under an ultramodern hospital roof . . . It dazzled me to watch the plan's huge profits build and actually pay off beautiful hospitals. I fell for the plan's economics offering what seemed complete surgical and medical care...
...think?", and one catty nun will say about another: "And you should see her genuflections." The abbot on the phone burbles to his opposite number: "Well, Abbess, and how's the old blood pressure?", while a fierce little monk clutching a horsewhip snarls: "Who's pinched my relic of The Little Flower?" Most of Brother Choleric's cartoons are taken from real life. Says he: "One doesn't have to think up jokes in a monastery...
Abie's Irish Rose (by Anne Nichols) is much more, of course, than a bit of debris out of Broadway's past. It might even be considered Broadway's most sacred relic: at any rate its five-year run remains the greatest of Broadway miracles. How great a miracle only those who see it today can be quite sure. It has been brought up to date in various little ways, but with the utmost tact, and in all essentials is every bit as stupefying...