Word: inquisitors
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...College of Surgeons, was well aware that ever since 19th century critics dubbed El Greco an "astigmatic lunatic" the sight defect thesis had often been offered. But Trevor-Roper's research was carefully prepared. Flashing a slide projection of El Greco's famed Portrait of the Grand Inquisitor Don Fernando Nino de Guevara on one side of the lecture-hall screen, he pointed out that an astigmatic person sees an upright figure thinner and longer, a horizontal shape shorter and thicker. Next to the exact image he then projected a second slide of the same portrait-this time...
...prolific chronicler of Dixie doxies and other low-lifers, Author Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell, was asked by syndicated Columnist-Inquisitor Mike Wallace: "Will sex defeat segregation [in the South]?" Observer Caldwell not only replied yes, but answered so positively that he may be suspected by some Southerners of being a cryptocarpetbagger. His prophecy: "Eventually you'll have an amalgamation of the two races in the South. Nature itself knows no distinctions between human beings, no matter what language they speak or what color their skin is. The racial conflicts in the South will eventually and quietly be dissolved...
...highlights of the entire production is John Graef as Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor. With Graef's rich voice, excellent enunciation, and unctuously sinister air, it is difficult to imagine more perfect casting...
...shows, and a "new drama series" disguised as Key Club Playhouse will run off old films from Ford Theater. Folksy Bandleader Lawrence Welk, whose climb to the No. 5 position in the ratings began with a summer replacement spot two years ago, will obligingly tootle all summer long. Grand Inquisitor Mike Wallace, the chain's "biggest" new talent, will be around on Sunday nights. Already filling in for vacationing Kukla, Fran & Ollie is Sports Focus, a new show featuring sports news and interviews with top athletes. There will also be reruns of many ABC standbys...
Challenging Eisenhower's patience, a journalist dared ask him a provocative question re helicopters and golf. The inquisitor got a cold but polite answer. It would be good to prevent that fellow from participating in these press conferences-at least to persuade him to stop asking questions below the level of dignified journalism...