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...become delirious." Last week when Londoners finally got in on the act, some found what remained of Dali's nightmarish designs more distracting and boring than shocking. The frame of the harp that played for Salome's dance was a painted giraffe's neck. Herodias' tent was surmounted by umbrella skeletons which undulatingly opened and shut throughout the performance. John's severed head was a tame affair that looked more like a haggis: Dali's more horrifying head had been axed at the last minute by the censor. What delirium the audience felt...
Born to wealth (his father was a railroad tycoon), Firbank spent most of his short life roaming around the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, halting, as the whim seized him, in a tent in the desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned...
This week, in a big circus tent ("the largest revival tent in history") in downtown Los Angeles, Evangelist Graham seemed to be wielding the revival sickle as no one since Billy Sunday had wielded it. Sponsored and financed by businessmen, ministers and such groups as Christian Endeavor, Youth for Christ, and the Gideons, 31-year-old Billy Graham arrived in September to conduct a four-week revival...
...sponsors, combined under the name "Christ for Greater Los Angeles," expected him to hold meetings for only four weeks. But this week he had already overstayed his original engagement by two weeks, and was drawing bigger crowds every night. Some 250,000 had crowded to hear him (the tent holds 6,280 but the standees fan out into the street), and nearly every prominent minister in Los Angeles had put in an appearance on Billy Graham's crowded platform...
...microphone which gives added volume to his deep, cavernous voice, allows him to pace the platform as he talks, rising to his toes to drive home a point, clenching his fists, stabbing his finger at the sky and straining to get his words to the furthermost corners of the tent...