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...world view on the assumption that all other human beings are coarse and mediocre. A dramatic rendering of Tocqueville's Recollections would have just as many pitfalls as Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. Rolfe the "religious fanatic" leaves everyone else in the backwash of his own verbiage and self-esteem-ergo, they are mediocrities first, last and always. Curiously enough, Luke in his dramatic handling takes the fantasy at face value and glorifies the "mediocrities" without tracing their source in Rolfe's mind...
Died. James Pringle, 51, veteran Associated Press war photographer; of cancer; in Rome. Pringle covered the Blitz, the Allies' advance across Europe, the Korean War, the Hungarian and Algerian Revolutions, winning his colleagues' esteem for his craftsmanship and their awe for his Irish fearlessness in the face of fire. "Why, they can't hit me," he once said as bullets buzzed overhead. "After all, I carry an Irish passport...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals has long held womanhood and the performing arts in high esteem." explained Theatrical president Christopher R. Tunnard 71, "and it is honored to present this award in recognition of great artistic ability and feminine qualities...
Pudding President Roy F. Coppedge 70 presented Miss Warwick with the official Hasty Pudding pot. Miss Warwick, puffing on a Virginia Slim. said. "It is quite an honor to be presented with this pot. Every time I use it. I'll think of Harvard and all the-esteem they have for feminine qualities...
...helpless civilians so brutally murdered there are another testimony to the fact that "liberty and justice for all" exist only if one happens to be American, wealthy and white. The "great silent majority" must work together morally for those values and ideals that were once held in such high esteem...