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...Saint Elmo...
...renaming Paris' Place d'Etoile after Charles de Gaulle really enough of a tribute? Why not go all out and make the late general a saint? The idea was suggested by a German journalist and backed up by no less a dignitary than the Vatican's Jean Cardinal Danielou, who said that the idea "does not shock me." How about the miracles normally required for canonization? Merely an innovation of modern times, said Danielou. More important was the ability "to practice virtues with a certain degree of heroism." In any case there was no particular hurry. Joan...
...Saint or Pariah. Abruptly, the letter made Hickel a sort of Establishment saint to many students and a pariah at the White House. Nixon did not object to the criticism, but to the fact that it was leaked to the press even before it arrived in the Oval Office. Says one White House aide: "The President thought it was an effort to embarrass him personally, and he never got over it. He never trusted the man after that...
...hagiology of liberal America, Franklin Roosevelt has always been a favorite saint. Herbert Hoover was only slightly less villainous than Judas Iscariot. Now at least a few writers of the radical left are changing the text. In The Greening of America, Yale's Charles Reich argues that the New Deal helped create not only an inhuman corporate state but "a new consciousness that believed primarily in domination and the necessity for living under domination...
...this essential difference underlined from the opening frames, and with Sarah feeling as deeply about Danny and his ideals as she claims to, it is impossible for the filmmaker to make plausible her constant toleration of her ever-more-combative father. And if Danny throughout the film is a saint whose outrages are always justified, the sudden jealousy finally arising when his infant son takes up most of Sarah's attention remains inexplicable-unless it signifies that his position as a hero in Korty's mythology is summarily halted, and that he is now the father-figure to be fought...