Word: inquisitors
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...Faust, he was long relegated to medium-size basso parts, found it difficult to compete with star foreigners for the leading roles. As a result, he does some shrewd horse-trading, e.g., he still sings the relatively minor parts of Brother Pimen (in Boris) and the Grand Inquisitor (in Don Carlo) in exchange for a share of the bigger parts...
...When St. Pius V (1566-72) was canonized. Ascetic Pius V, a friar of the Dominican order, and Inquisitor General for all of Christendom before he became Pope, is chiefly remembered by historians as the Pontiff who made the break between Rome and the Church of England irrevocable by excommunicating Queen Elizabeth...
...mayor of New York City has ever received on the Republican ticket. Tagging along as a poor third (468,392 votes) was Liberal Candidate Rudolph Halley, better known outside New York than any of the other candidates because of his television performances as the Kefauver committee's chief inquisitor...
...very clover comment--I never answered these questions, which I am willing to do at any time, only because they were never asked under oath or otherwise. I regard the very positing of these questions as not only ridiculous but more insulting to the intellect of the inquisitor than to myself...
...attacked Senators Jenner, Velde, and McCarthy, calling the last "our modern grand inquisitor," a "dangerous and ruthless demagogue" who "has used the technique of insinuation against innocent people and debauched the Senate's power of investigation by introducing authorization practices that are skin to the communism which he professes to hate...