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...presidium of China's National Assembly were closed, or so everyone supposed, when up rose Ma Ching-oung, a rebel from the west. Ma could spin a prayer wheel, but he had never heard of Robert's Rules of Order. Wrapped in his purple lama's robe, his sharp eyes aglitter and his skinny arms aflutter, the delegate from Sikang Province cried hotly into the mike...
...difference between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...
Viveca Lindfors, the Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy's latest gift to Hollywood (others: Garbo, Bergman, Signe Hasso), started work on her first picture and first starring role, Night unto Night. She also posed prettily in Hollywood's favorite robe, which her publicists explained she would wear on the screen...
Examples: The Hand that Drove the Nails is not my novel, but was written by Dr. Fletcher Ray. The film script, originally based on this book . . . deals with the life of Jesus, whereas that excellent book, The Robe, does not deal with the life of Jesus. What I said was that the little short films made by non-profit-making Cathedral Films, Inc. were, by comparison, so good that they beat all other religious films to date "into a cocked...
...exploits every last one of the most treasured American principles-the brotherhood of races and creeds, human decency, class democracy (it has enough "little men" to man a Liberty ship). Above all, it has a religious theme-and in recent years a slew of novels, good & bad (including The Robe, The Song of Bernadette, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith) have proved to publishers that in an unhappy world religion, no matter how vulgarized, has a market value second only to sex. In The Miracle, religious faith is trumpeted with a shamelessness that would make an atheist blush...