Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell House Musical Society has announced that its annual spring operatic production this year will be a departure from precedent: an original opera written especially for the Society by undergraduates. Called The Conversion of Saint Pelagia, the Harlot, the opera was composed by Roland C. Perera '63 with a libretto by David S. Cole '63. It will be performed in Agassiz...
...floor of the prison cell, the cockroach struggles frantically to escape its burning bed of straw. "Confess you're not a saint," shouts one convict hovering over the minuscule pyre, "or else the fire of heaven will consume your flesh amid hideous sufferings." Cries another: "Confess that the Prince of Evil has appeared to you and seduced you, but that you see the light and that repentance floods your heart." But the roach says nothing and goes up in flames. "She's damned. God forgive...
...over now, and they still walk around that way," said a cafe proprietor on the Rue Saint Jacques, gesturing at three officers of the peace standing on the corner with submachine guns slung under their coats. "I have nothing against de Gaulle--I don't play politics--but who do they plan to shoot those things at? They should take them away...
...Gaulle's security does not seem to be the only reason for the massive police forces in Paris. If security precautions for the President explain the busloads of policemen at the Elysee palace, they do not explain the police opposite the University of Paris, at Place Saint Michel in the Latin Quarter, or opposite the American Express office. At these points, and in numerous other areas of Paris, the police are for control, not security...
Newcomer Hedren bids fair to take her rightful place in the succession of Hitchcock Ice Princesses (bland, blonde predecessors: Eva Marie Saint, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Madeleine Carroll) if she can learn to register horror more convincingly before the cameras roll again. Veteran Ethel Grififies, as a sensible-shoed bird lover, provides a deft and daft counterpoint to the bird-damning villagers. But the most unforgettable performers in The Birds are the birds. They are utterly, terrifyingly believable as they go about their bloody business of murdering humanity. Pigeons loitering around the exits of theaters where this movie is shown...