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Globe-flitting Evangelist Billy Graham thought that he had found heaven on earth-and right in his own headquarters state. Pinpointing church-going Minnesota as "a moral and spiritual paradise," where there is "less crime, immorality and open sin than anywhere else in the northern part of the United States," he happily surprised Minneapolitans among 18,500 listeners at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. Unnoticed went some decidedly unparadisiacal facts: in the past month, their city was forced to boost taxes to fight a 30% increase in crime, heard itself berated by a convention of building managers for the most...
...babbling distractedly of who should get the sideboard. The wife, as generally happens in a Bergman gavotte, frees herself of both lover and husband, but with maternal indulgence accepts the husband again. Aficionados will appreciate a surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking psychiatry and symbol-mad film directors, laughs wryly "at Freud's theories," and they get back to their lovemaking...
...cardinal sin for tea hers," says one who knows the trade, "is boredom...
...damn thing after another. Causation, results, growth, change--none of these exist in Viereck's dramatic world. And his ideas, bad as they are, do not develop from his characters and situations: rather, his play is a series of expositions of ideas, never embodied in dramatic form. The greatest sin in theatre is to be dull, and Viereck is rarely anything else...
While the Corporation was recovering in complete silence from this remarkable revolution," says Acheson. "I was tempted and fell into sin Addressing the President of the University, I said, 'Your Honor, the prosecution reals.' The silence was broken, but the Schator was not amused...