Word: assisi
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...title is the G.I.'s final word of advice to his chubby war-time friend, Peppino, a seven year old short-hauler who owns a donkey. The story is Paul Gallico's now well-known tale of how a humble son of Assisi got to see the Pope and saved his donkey...
Everybody likes Sisters Mary Jeanne Madeleine and Mary Francis Terese of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi. At Milwaukee's Cardinal Stritch College, music students flock to them; and for the children of St. John's School for the Deaf, the day they come to teach is the high point of the week. The sisters (who are twins) can feel the smiles that greet them as they rustle into a room. But they cannot see the smiles, for they are almost totally blind...
...protest. Critics who had panned the movie spoke up for anybody's right to see it. Joseph Burstyn, distributor of Ways of Love, pointed out that after The Miracle was shown in Italy, the Vatican approved Rossellini's plan to do a movie about Saint Francis of Assisi. If the Vatican was not offended by The Miracle, Burstyn implied, who was a mere license commissioner to object? Furthermore, although the film had been "condemned" by the Catholic Legion of Decency as "sacrilegious and blasphemous," it had been passed by the New York state censors, National Board of Review...
...Glamour." A modest, monastical-ly-minded bachelor who disdains money and "glamour," takes St. Francis of Assisi for his model, Mitropoulos once surprised Minneapolis society by living in a cubicle in a University of Minnesota dormitory; he donated much of his $25,000 salary to needy composers. He has not changed his ways in Manhattan. Last month, when he took the Philharmonic into Manhattan's Roxy Theater as the stage attraction (partly to reach new audiences), he turned half of his own $5,000-a-week salary over to the orchestra's pension fund. He lives alone...
...relief to achieve an effect of depth through drawing and flat planes. The large left-hand panel of his door showed such great teacher-saints as John the Baptist, Augustine, Benedict, Ignatius and John Bosco. The right-hand panel included such confessor-and martyr-saints as Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Joan...