Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portrait of a saint," writes Clare Boothe Luce, "is only a fragment of a great and still uncompleted mosaic-the portrait of Jesus." Although a sizable portion of Christendom (including the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox communions) honors the saints as man's intercessors with God, historical distances have dimmed most saintly portraits even for the modern Christian, to say nothing of the skeptic who lives next door. To show the "timeliness" of the saints in 1952, Clare Luce has edited Saints for Now (Sheed & Ward; $3.50), 20 sketches of triumphant Christians of the past...
Each contributor was asked to write about his favorite saint. Two saints, Francis of Assisi and the Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius...
...Olympian task, and it is no wonder that Director George Abbott was forced to throw in a liberal sprinkling of decolletages and torch singing to keep the play moving. Bumps and grinds are all right in their place, but one can't help wondering, after Othello, Streetcar, and Saint Joan, whether Miss Hagen's talents do not lie in other directions...
...other hand, the state's admiration for Joe seems to be sharply limited. Many of the people who voted for him openly voiced their reservations. Said one last week: "We know Joe is no saint. We know that some of the methods he uses aren't too good. We know that he isn't too smart sometimes. But we're convinced that where there's smoke there's fire. And Joe has done an awful lot to point out where there's smoke billowing up. There have been Reds in Government...
...Wets fought back. "They want to prevent us from drinking, smoking, even making love," snorted Andre Mignot, secretary-general of France's National Defense Committee Against Alcoholism. "We're French. You can't be an abstainer in France unless you're a hero or a saint...