Word: torquemadas
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...possessed of a piety that "shone forth from the very depths of her soul with a heavenly radiance which illuminated her whole character." It was her remarkable innocence, says Prescott, and her implicit trust in her "ghostly advisers" that caused her to fall under the influence of the villainous Torquemada, who established the Spanish Inquisition...
Whipsaw. The trouble began when Weinberg set his sights on the Fifth Avenue Coach Line, whose routes lace Manhattan and suburban Westchester County. With the shrewd counsel of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, 35, the boy Torquemada of the McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none...
...lacking. Thus, according to the Jungian school, the unconscious tries to correct or heal disorganization of the ego?or of society?by doggedly creating images of value, order and meaning. This process can produce fanatics, prophets and saints; it did produce, according to the analytic view of history, Torquemada, Calvin, Knox and Jonathan Edwards. No one can say what prophets or fanatics the U.S. may produce to combat its Age of Anxiety, but its people are certain to react?possibly in futile and less spectacular ways?to the disorder and the threats of their environment...
Home from a peek at the Brussels Fair, Producer Jean Dalrymple, Coordinator of the U.S. Performing Arts Program for the U.S. exhibit and Director of Manhattan's City Center, assured TV Torquemada Mike Wallace that the world is very much with the U.S.: "Oh, it's not true, all this talk of anti-Americanism. I've never found it in Europe except among a certain set of intellectuals-the ones the newspapermen are always with. They're all liberal and leftist. There were 750,000 people at the fair...
...LONG SKELETON, by Frances & Richard Lockridge (190 pp.; Lippincott; $2.95), takes off from the logical assumption that when a Torquemada-type TV interviewer is poisoned, the list of suspects is likely to run into considerable space. The puzzle yields to Pamela North, a young lady who has already solved a lively libraryful of murders. But her devotion to her sensitive-stomached Siamese cat and her giddy insistence that violence can be cute suggest that, for all her prowess as a detective, Mrs. North has a promising future as a likely victim...