Word: vileness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Francis and his order of Frati Minori, or Little Brothers (they did not at first aspire to the priesthood), had become a mass movement dedicated to holy poverty. When Francis got around to writing down a formal rule for his order, he prescribed "vile vestments" and, in preaching, "brief discourses, because the Lord while on earth talked briefly...
...course of behaving well, e.g., rescuing girls with rich fathers from bolting horses, Lemuel goes to jail, loses a leg, all his teeth and an eye, is robbed of his savings, and is finally martyred by an assassin. On Pitkin's Birthday, a national holiday, the vile Whipple addresses a mob of American fascists wearing coonskin caps: "Jail is his first reward. Poverty his second. Violence is his third. Death is his last." Shagpoke's youthful followers roar: "Hail, Lemuel Pitkin! All hail, the American...
...palace. Then, as tanks and armored cars of the former Arab Legion rattled through the streets and ringed the palace, the young general was arrested and packed off by car for Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest. The palace announced that a "vile attempt" to take over the army had been frustrated, and Major General Ali el Hayari, 38, one of the top Arab Legion commanders in the days of the British Glubb Pasha, and a strong supporter of the King, had taken over as Jordan's new army chief...
...Sullivan plays the vile Moor, Aaron, with stunning force. Pride and pure villainy radiate from his posture and face, and his voice grasps Shakesperean lines with brilliant skill. James Matisoff, playing the Emperor is impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After...
...knew now . . . how God must hate the vile and shameful flesh...