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Many of those who did not, lie in the American cemetery near Saint-Lau-rent-sur-Mer, its 9,386 gleaming white marble crosses and stars of David overlooking a part of the beach called "Easy Red" 25 years ago. There are also 19 smaller British and Canadian cemeteries in the invasion area, and at La Cambe, one of four German cemeteries, 21,500 rest, guarded by a giant dark cross and the sculptures of two grieving parents. All the cemeteries are meticulously maintained by their governments...
PICTURES OF FIDELMAN, by Bernard Malamud. Yet another schlemiel-saint in fiction-but this one is canonized by Malamud's compassionate talent...
...theatrical knights who joined his wife, Dame Sybil Thorndike, in one of the great partnerships of the stage; of kidney disease; in London. Al ready well known when they married in 1908, Sir Lewis and Dame Sybil greatly enhanced their stature in hundreds of performances together, notably in Saint Joan and Eighty in the Shade...
...since Pope Paul's birth-control encyclical has a Vatican announcement caused more fuss. A new universal liturgical calendar issued by the Vatican last week dropped or downgraded more than 200 saints-among them such popular figures as St. Christopher, St. Valentine, St. Nicholas, St. George and St. Patrick. Christopher-the giant of a man who, according to legend, earned his way to heaven by carrying the Child Jesus across a raging stream and thus became the patron saint of travelers-met a most ignominious fate. Though his image, emblazoned on medals, statuettes and key rings, has traveled literally...
...Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, and Schoenberg were regarded, with varying vehemence, as musical antichrists, Yet now that they are heard, with deadening frequency, they are widely caricatured as rebels or prophets, venerable and unapproachable. They are accorded all honors except the simple duty of critical listening. As Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan laments upon realizing that her belated 1910 canonization was due to a stupid society's mute guilt rather than its compassion: "Woe to him whom all men praise...