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Hold Out! A general takes a patriotic view. He wants to enlist -THEM in the cold war. "We've got to make contact," he says. "Bring them in on our side. If they shared with us, told us all they knew . . . we'd be unbeatable." A small-town barber, who is planning to meet THEM by building a giant Jacob's ladder to heaven, raves on like a real estate developer. "Four soaring arches spanning the state," he proposes, "topped by a golden latticework of jointed metal. Build it up in easy stages. Hydraulic elevators. Restaurants...
...Even on opening nights, he hides craftily-in the prompter's box, if there is one. The only glimpse people might have of him later is of an overcoated figure loping away over cobblestones. Few would recognize him even if they had studied his picture. He suggests a small-town storekeeper with a long face, an unassertive little mustache and silver-rimmed glasses...
Still to come are the least likely episodes of Preminger's massive liturgy. On a visit to Georgia, Monsignor Fermoyle wins singlehanded a battle with small-town bigots after getting himself horsewhipped by the Klan. Years later, after he has reached his episcopacy, Fermoyle takes on Adolf Hitler: he returns to Vienna to talk sense to Cardinal Innitzer (the real-life churchman who welcomed Naziism to Austria prior to the Anschluss of 1938). The episode ends ludicrously: as Brownshirts riot around Innitzer's palace, Soprano Wilma Lipp and 200 members of the Wiener Jeunesse Choir huddle primly...
...well-heeled small-town matron, thinking a canary too common a pet, keeps a live revolutionary caged in her drawing room instead...
...When I read the story of Pele, the "criminal" donkey [Nov. 15], I was reminded of a similar story of a persecuted donkey by the German author Christolph Martin Wieland. In Geschichte der Abderiten, he intended to point out absurdities of small-town government and life. A Grecian dentist named Struthion and a donkey driver nearly came to blows over whether or not Struthion might stand in the shadow of his rented donkey since he had not rented the shadow as well. Struthion felt that the donkey came with the shadow...