Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, stale and unprofitable. Today Bessans' No. 1 whittler is Emile Tracq, 46, who has sold travelers some 500 devils and statuettes modeled on his wife. He prefers the devils because "I can carve one in 50 hours. It takes much longer to do the Virgin or a saint." According to the village priest, Tracq's works "lack soul...
Sacks & Bats. Though himself a skeptic, Diogène is finally undone by the imperatives. When he uses a variety of tricks to seduce Lourdes, the town of Saint Marc looks on with amused tolerance. After all, he is the local Don Juan. But when he refuses to acknowledge Lourdes's baby, her enraged mother, Zeline, pronounces a curse on him, and Saint Marc knows that trouble is ahead. Sure enough, a few days later, Diogène's wife comes down with a seizure, screaming, "I beg you, please get this sack off my head..." Everyone knows...
...Other Hollywood divorce cases in a quiet week: Linda Darnell (grounds: mental cruelty), Leslie ("The Saint") Charteris (grounds: cruelty) and a host of minor characters...
...County Sligo. In World War I, a British destroyer mistook its low-lying shape for a German submarine, let fly with a torpedo. The explosion shook the island up a bit but it failed to deflect the inhabitants from the pursuit of customs stemming back to the time of Saint Columba, who is said to have stopped off at Inishmurray on his way to convert Scotland to Christianity...
...faith in politics; as a revolutionary fighter she deplored reliance on force. Yet today Simone Weil is looked upon by an increasing audience as one of the outstanding religious figures of her time.* In the current issue of the Jewish monthly, Commentary, is a penetrating study of the "Saint of the Absurd" by Leslie A. Fiedler, associate professor of humanities at the University of Montana...