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...cross-purposes with something he is not but would apparently like to be: the father of his country. In other plays he has sometimes shown a tiresome tendency to prate, but in this one he spends rather more than an hour in mounting the pulpit and clearing his throat. When at last he thunders forth his text, the congregation is ready to hear the wisdom of the ages. Instead, the message runs something like this: "Don't cheat on your wife. Because if you do, you'll never finish night school. And if you don't finish...
Thank you for your commendable tongue-twisting, throat-throttling, teeth-twitching review [Feb. 25] of Smiley...
Breach After Long Silence. In Cincinnati, Le Cameron Trent won a divorce after he testified that his wife "threw chinaware at me, tried to stick me with scissors, took a butcher knife and tried to cut my throat, and wouldn't talk...
Worst of all, the whites' lunatic fringe began to take over. A letter addressed simply to "Nigger Preacher" was promptly delivered to Martin King. Up to 25 profanity-laced telephone calls a day came to the King home. Sometimes there was only the hawk of a throat and the splash of spittle against the ear piece. Montgomery was building toward the one thing that Martjn King wanted most to avoid: a violent blowup...
...cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what country people would call 'a hard death.' " The Thing won out in the end. The haunted family eventually went off to the U.S., and "the gallant clergy, who made such constant efforts on their behalf, seem to have been the worse for it. One priest had a nervous...