Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were asked to find the author himself. The American Express office was holding letters for Wilder, but didn't know where he was. Correspondent Fred Klein got in touch with the American Embassy, Paris publishers and others, finally received word that Wilder could probably be found at Saint-Moritz...
...Saint Paul, Minn...
Oxford-educated Patrick Duncan, 34, is the son of the first South African to be appointed Governor General, the late Sir Patrick Duncan. He hobbled into the location's filth-laden alleys supported by Manilal Gandhi, 60-year-old son of the patron saint of all passive resisters: Mahatma Gandhi. Both men wore the yellow, green and black rosette of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), which preaches racial justice but deplores the violent solutions of its Communist outriders...
...different versions make up a movie-like sequence of St. Matthew's assassination* by a hulking swordsman. In the first, the saint is on his feet, his hand raised against the sword. In the second (though his body does not appear), the position of the saint's head shows him kneeling or falling. In the version the world knows, St. Matthew lies sprawled on the ground, while the swordsman, straddling his body, prepares for the coup...
Purity with Popcorn. Writes Critic Kerr: "The Church in this country has . . . seemed to say, 'I don't care what the quality of the art work is, so long as its content is innocuous, or perhaps favorably disposed in our direction . . .' A film featuring a saint is a film of majestic technical excellence. A film showing a nun driving a jeep is a superbly made comedy. A film embracing a jolly priest, a self-sacrificing Catholic mother and an anti-Communist message must be defended in the diocesan press from those irresponsible esthetes . . . who have...