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...olden days, after the end of World War II, there dwelt in the Bavarian Alps a countess of extreme pique and doleful countenance (Angela Lansbury). Or so the celluloid scribes of Something for Everyone inform us. Looming up in the mists was her former abode, a massive castle that would have excited the imagination of a Winston cigarette ad campaigner. The countess's present quarters were on the castle grounds in a palatial lean-to that the countess shared with her gay son and a daughter who had once been voted the Ugliest Duckling beyond the Valley...
...read through all the leaflets circulated by these extremists who have dwelt among us in recent years, bent an slandering an institution it might have been assumed they would love, or lovingly find fault with, without discovering a single effort to clarify, to analyze, to explain or honestly to represent. Always they insinuate, distort, accuse, their aim being not to identify and correct real abuses, but always rather by crying alarm intentionally to arouse and inflame passions in order to build support for "non-negotiable demands," and by this means, to enlarge their following and enhance their power. Clearly...
From the rubble of a violent semester came themes for commencement speakers across the U.S. Most dwelt on factionalized America and the need for reconciliation between young and old, black and white, left and right. New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay echoed the predominant plea by calling for a "new center" in the country's politics. Speaking at Williams College in Massachusetts, he rejected rigid "attachment to the simple and the absolute." Lindsay espoused "not a compromise between the uncompromising extremes, not a compromise with our conscience, but a commitment to rational change by rational means." He added...
...that they lost when some denominations became "too white" in style. Only in a revitalized religion, says Marshall, can blacks find the spiritual energy to win and keep power. Marshall's parting benediction at Sunday services, appropriately, is "Peace and power." His Tuesday-night sermons during Lent dwelt on the power of the Holy Spirit to transform lives. "We need the church to be a spiritual organism," shouted Marshall in one sermon, "where the Spirit of God goes out into the broader community and reorders and restructures and radicalizes and revolutionizes that community. That's what Jesus wants...
...main purpose of the original Pierian Sodality seems to have been to serenade young ladies in the Boston vicinity. One Pierian remembers, the balmy nights of early summer. . . wherever. . . dwelt celebrated belles, [were] interrupted by the delicate strains of the little group of players, who found a sufficient reward in the sound of a window raised, a blind thrown open or any other indication that the sleepers were alert. The recollection of every one who took part in them and supply him with abundant incidents of these romantic excursions, oftentimes sufficiently amusing, such as the wishing of the tender strains...