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...persuade him. Odysseus seeks to employ violence, and finally drives Neoptolemus to return the bow to its owner and even to promise to take him home to Greece. His kindness almost breaks down the resolve of Philoctetes, but the latter remains firm until his apotheosized friend Heracles appears as deus ex machine to bid Philoctetes go to Troy as the command of the gods. So Sophocles satisfied his own principle of the invincible will and at the same time followed the legend. Even in the evening of his days, which must have been shadowed by the approaching ruin of Athens...
...Europe with his wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker's wife, causes her husband to desert his mistress...
...Pope speaks ex-cathedra, and in consequence infallibly, when and only when he defines formally that a doctrine is of faith. I will give but one example of such an ex-cathedra pronouncement. It may be found in the Bull Ineffabilis Deus of Pius IX. Rather too long to be quoted verbatim and in full, it runs substantially thus: "By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ ... we declare, pronounce and define" that the doctrine which holds the Blessed Virgin Mary to have been "preserved . . . immune from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and is therefore...
...coup d'etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta, "to prevent further bloodshed...
...Nature's aid in recent years, however, has come a deus ex machina: U. S. capital and U. S. industrial methods in the persons of the four potent Brothers Guggenheim. Originally focused on Chile by copper, their gaze wandered in 1924 to nitrates. Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry. Last fall it clinched its leadership by buying control of Lautaro Nitrate Co. Ltd., biggest producer of Chilean nitrate. Even before that, however, the Guggenheims had started their Oficina Maria Elena Plant working in 1926 with the epochal Guggenheim Process...