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...Secret Ways (Heath; U-l), from the thriller novel by Scotland's Alistair MacLean, is, like most of his works (H.M.S. Ulysses, The Guns of Navarone), a derring-documentary that celebrates courage-for-a-cause. Hero Richard Widmark starts out believing that "everybody's learned to live by compromise," changes his mind after he and the audience have spent 112 minutes of sadism, gunplay, torture, capture and escape, cliffhanging, ledge-crawling, escape and capture. It is easily the most relentless movie chase since The Great Train Robbery...
Distinguished Descent. Balthus was born Balthasar Klossowski de Rola in Paris on Feb. 29, 1908. Klossowski is a name that goes back for centuries in the Polish nobility, but he is also descended from the Gordons of Scotland, the most notable of whom was Lord Byron. His father was a noted critic whose house was always full of artists, writers, musicians, poets, psychologists and philosophers. For young Balthasar, the talk in the salon was an education in itself...
...ENGLISH BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT. A new English translation prepared and directed by representatives of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, The Church of England, The Church of Scotland, The Congretional Union of England and Wales, The Council of Churches for Wales, The London Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, The Methodist Church of Great Britain, The Presbyterian Church of England, The United Council of Christian Churches and Religious Communions in Ireland, The British and Foreign Bible Society, and The National Bible Society of Scotland. New York, 1961, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press...
...rate, by the middle of the last century both these shortcomings were quite painfully obvious--sufficiently so to prompt the Church of England to undertake (in 1870) a general revision of the scriptures. In company with the Church of Scotland and various dissenting sects (John Henry Newman was obliged to decline an offer to participate), the Church of England eventually produced the Revised Version of 1881. If the RV, as it was inevitably and almost immediately called, failed to arouse any considerable enthusiasm, this was in part the fault of the Church itself, which had given the Revisers a very...
With reference to your [phrase] "the famed Canadian subchaser known as the corvette," I would point out that this class of warship has had an honourable history in the navies of Europe long antedating the settlement of Canada or indeed the questionable activities of John Paul Jones either against Scotland or for Russia...