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...praising him. But serious painting on a large scale never suited the Rowlandson temperament. A ?7,000 legacy from an aunt gave him a taste for high living, and he wandered through Europe and England, drinking, talking, gambling-and drawing. He illustrated a dozen books including Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. His work became so popular that a new industry arose in London: producing fake Rowlandsons...
...indeed Christ gave to Peter and his successors that Kingly authority which is surely His to give, that the head of the church upon earth might have the power to maintain the truth in spite of all error, then it is unwise to resist the loving summons of the Vicar of Christ." Moreover, said Hyslop, who is a member of the United Church of Christ, "the embodiment of the doctrine in a person is at this moment in history most persuasive in the person of John XXIII...
...most of the time in this record of a recent expedition to the plains of Patagonia, his book is fresh, shrewd and informative. Sometimes his observations are merely amusing: "A pygmy owl with round yellow eyes that glared at me with all the silent indignation of a vicar who, in the middle of the service, has discovered that the organist is drunk." At Durrell's best, they are more; in his description, for instance, of the stoic heroism of foraging penguins, he fills the reader with his own great love for the world's wonderful beasts...
...Navy because he was too short. Back to the store went a determined Father Spellman to be fitted out in doughboy drab-whereupon he was foiled again by an archiepiscopal order freezing him in his Boston job. "I still visit the troops each Christmas," concluded the longtime military vicar to Roman Catholics in the U.S. armed forces, "because of my 1918 inferiority complex...
...constantly. He cannot fore-bear from adding an enigmatic sequence of pure symbolism, relating the legend of how Don Juan was carried to hell. It is a striking sequence, invested with Bergman's typicalaly nightmarish quality. But it makes no sense, and has no relation to the story. The vicar's wife, on hearing the legend, becomes upset and cries: "Life is a stupid comedy. No one can understand it." At this point, most of the audience is inclined to agree with...