Word: ritter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture deals with five people who sense but don't actually know where they are. Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, and Montgomery Clift make the characters vital not only as individuals but for what they represent: dreams that went sour, the lies, the payoff, the human self-destruction, and all that Miller sees in his own country and his own life...
...Unfair & Discriminatory." Drawn further into the debate, the Catholic hierarchy seemed to love federal aid far less than the principle of the parochial schools' right to it. St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter announced himself "personally opposed" to federal aid of any kind; but if such aid is voted, "then all the children should share in that benefit." New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman noted that "it is not for me to say whether there should be any federal aid to education. That is a political and economic matter to be decided by the Congress in compliance with...
Thus Henry Denker, the author of The Far Country, had a head start when he embarked on his dramatization of Freud's treatment of Elizabeth von Ritter. Whether he increased his lead very much is open to question. There is much to be praised in The Far Country, but there are also some embarrassing weak spots...
...Rome for the elevation to cardinal of St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph Ritter was hot-fingered Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, a friend of the new cardinal since 1948. Musician Hampton, who kissed Cardinal Ritter's ring just after the formal papal announcement of his appointment, had made a special trip with a group of Catholics from Indianapolis, Ritter's former diocese. A onetime Catho lic altar boy who now belongs to no church but considers himself "a good-will ambassador of God," Hampton explained: "Cardinal Ritter's work for integration and in the educational field has given...
Under Archbishop Ritter. St. Louis has gained 41 new churches and 16 new hospitals. St. Louis has also acquired a warm feeling for the quiet archbishop, who is notoriously inaccessible to newsmen. Asked by one of them-tongue in cheek -whether as cardinal he planned to hold regular press conferences. Archbishop Ritter smiled broadly. "I think I'll wait to see what Senator Kennedy's going to do," he replied. "He may give you more press conferences than you'll know what to do with...