Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saint and no deliberate marr tyr. He was a highly skilled physician who, out of a strong Christian faith and a sense of common humanity, had gone to the Congo to treat the sick. His death did more than prove that Black African civilization-with its elaborate trappings of half a hundred sovereignties, governments and U.N. delegations -is largely a pretense. The rebels were after all, for the most part, only a rabble of dazed, ignorant savages, used and abused by semi-sophisticated leaders...
...play begins ten years after the end of World War II. Maxime (Charles D. Gray), a rich aristocratic rightist, decides to hold a wig party in a Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor, an ex-classmate of Maxime's and the son of a washerwoman. He comes as Robespierre...
...notion that purified evil could be a kind of sainthood. His self-nomination is announced and ritually celebrated in The Thief's Journal, written in the '40s, which is just now translated and published in the U.S. By his own lights, Genet is indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops like blossoms in the pool of his own image are no worse than sneak thievery and queer rolling...
...Washington where he and Marian had played host to a brilliant circle of politicians and scholars, reflecting that he had become "a sort of ugly, bloated, purplish-blue and highly venomous hairy tarantula which catches and devours Presidents, senators, diplomats, congressmen and cabinet officers." After commissioning Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to build a memorial to Marian in Washington's Rock Creek Park, he took off on a slow boat to the South Seas. Like any tourist, he drank in the "purple mist and souffle" scenery, ogled the fetching island beauties. One erotic dance called for a kiss. "Mine...
...mistress, in Elizabeth Cameron, the vivacious wife of the senior Senator from Pennsylvania. "Life is not worth living," Adams once admitted, "unless you are attached to someone." The warmth of their relationship encouraged him to believe that the figure of the Mother is the core of Christianity. In Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, he credited the 12th century adoration of the Virgin with inspiring the building of the great cathedrals and with giving man happiness he has not had since...