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...grounds, to the intrusion of Eastern paganism in our more or less Christian spiritual life--saying that ducklings, bunnies and the like are nowhere officially authorized as part of the Christian ceremony--but, as any child will tell you, this is a too parochial outlook, not to mention stuffy. Doubtless, a wild-eyed anti-vivisectionist or two will maintain that man herein berays himself as the greatest predator of them all, and these souls should be cautioned not to castigate themselves for what comes naturally. Others will say that live ducklings would have been more fun for our children...
...becoming more and more vain, their earrings and other jewelry more and more costly. "Probably," said Seneca, "these mad fools of women believe their husbands would not be sufficiently tormented were they not to wear two or three chunks of the hereditary patrimony hanging from each ear." The women doubtless deserved the scolding, but their excess of vanity has proved a boon for posterity. For the past few months, thousands of Italians have been delighting in an exhibition of 1,000 Italian gold and silver art objects spanning the centuries from...
...days sometimes read more like items from Pravda than straight news. Not until Salisbury returned to New York in 1954 could he write the facts; Moscow promptly blasted him as ''ignorant" and a "liar," and refused him another visa for several years. Salisbury's latest product doubtless would win him some plaudits in the Kremlin-and some angry snarls as well...
...from Liberal Establishmentarian James Reston. Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, who thought the Review's firm stand might encourage the Republican Party to rusticate Welch and all other extremists of his breed. Such recognition should compensate for the risks in criticizing a man whose flock doubtless numbers some subscribers to the National Review...
...does not recognize Ponti's divorce from his first wife). In New York Supreme Court, where Sophia was suing Bronston Productions, Inc. because she was billed below Charlton Heston on a Broadway sign ballyhooing El Cid. Justice Samuel Hofstadter chucked out her requested injunction. Said he: "Such vanity doubtless is due to the adulation which the public showers on the denizens of the entertainment world in a profusion wholly disproportionate to the intrinsic contribution which they make to the scheme of things...