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Since then the Pathé producer-exhibitor network has gone successively through bankruptcy, reorganization, Nazi occupation, and the purge of collaborators. The Bank of France's Ferdinand Liffran is titular boss, has the help of a potent cross-section of French big business (steel, oils, insurance, cognac and utilities are represented on Pathé's present board). By diligent squeezing Pathé last year made a profit of $151,200 from films and its 35 European theaters...
...Oxford, Waugh's flight from the bourgeoisie was furthered. Evelyn became one of a mauve circle of which glittery, willowy Harold Acton was the titular Tiresias. Says Acton, who is supposed to have modeled for one of the more exotic characters in Brideshead, in his Memoirs of an Aesthete (recently published in England): "An almost inseparable boon companion at Oxford was a little faun called Evelyn Waugh. Though others assure me that he has changed past recognition, I still see him as a prancing faun, thinly disguised by conventional apparel. His wide-apart eyes, always ready to be startled...
...bother I would be president of the Student Council," trailed off the lethargic prexy of organized apathy. When forced to continue, he explained that in the last College-wide ballet less than half the men voted. "The non-voters lodged protest ballots for spathy, an I'm the titular head of the sleeping forces of spathy...
...centuries the Church of England has been tied, in one way or another, to the British state. The King, as titular head of the Church, still nominally appoints bishops and deans; Parliament must pass on the smallest change in the Book of Common Prayer; ecclesiastical court cases may be appealed to civil courts. Such a state of affairs was once natural enough. But many a modern Englishman now asks: is it suitable in a modern socialist state...
...Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that the King of England (titular head of the "national church") becomes a Presbyterian as soon as he crosses the Tweed...