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...moves more swiftly as Joan clashes violently with Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the only other major character. Her finest moments come in a dramatic song ending in her recantation. Soprano Elaine Malbin, as Joan, not only sang beautifully, but turned out to be an actress of imposing ability, and her whim per as the final flames rose about her was a terrible thing to hear...
...timid new hotel chambermaid is warned to expect trouble from the countess, for Lucrezia Sanziani is dotty, penniless and old-a kind of walking Roman ruin. Fresh from Rome's Trastevere slums, Carmela, the young chambermaid, is prepared to quake at the countess' least whim. Instead, she finds herself cast as a confidante of yesteryear in the old lady's wandering mind. Each day, in the afterglow of the Roman twilight, the countess stares deeply into her Florentine silver-gilt hand mirror and conjures up a hallucinated remembrance of loves past...
...responsibility and the expense of the Music Department itself. If Lamont did establish a Music I record library, it would provide freshmen with their first opportunity to borrow College records for private use. House libraries are useful for Music I only in varying degrees, depending on the whim of library committees...
From Oldie's floggings, Lewis graduated via a preparatory school to college fagging, a fetch-and-carry round of misery in which the New Boy was always jumping at the whim or whip of the "Bloods," an athletic elite corps. At Chartres, as he calls his school, Lewis, a lifelong bachelor, lost his virginity to a dancing mistress, and the remnants of his Christianity to his house mother. The house mother was running "the mazes of Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Spiritualism; the whole Anglo-American Occultist tradition . . . From the tyrannous noon of revelation I passed into the cool evening of Higher...
...short, "In the South the Negro's person and property are practically subject to the whim of any white person who wishes to take advantage of him or to punish him for any real or fancied wrong doing or 'insult'... Violence may occur at any time and it is the fear of it as much as the violence itself that creates the injustice and the insecurity." (Arnold Rose, The Negro in America...