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Initially, it seemed that the thieves had had easy access to Vatican chambers because of their jobs. With two for every citizen, phones are even more prevalent in the Vatican than security men and precious objects. In fact, the heists involved considerable ingenuity. According to the confession of one defendant, the thieves had managed to enter the Pope's quarters at the top of the Apostolic Palace in July 1969 while he was supposedly at his summer residence. The gang ransacked his rooms, unlocked his private elevator with a stolen key, ascended to a terrace and escaped over...
...that "a lot of the students are free spirits." At Northeastern, he continues, "students can say anything on their mind," as happened in the episode of the female songsters. "I like that story," he says with a grin, "but I won't put up with nonsense. Classroom time is precious. Once they disrupt one class, they can do a lot." O'Toole says he regrets the "desire among faculty to court popularity. There's a tendency to be soft on students here. I'm the only one to enforce the smoking regulations and I won't let students...
...oozing over-statement fill the entire collection. "howling,/hooding the head against horror. Human!" Her lines abound with histrionics, "oh brain, too much marked cave!" Attempting to be unconventional, Spivack occasionally borrows from e.e. cummings--with disastrous results. Bordering on sentimentality, she often omits capital letters in a consciously precious...
...marvel at gold and precious stones. But I am astonished to see workmanship excel the substance. For I have with wondering eyes beheld a thousand forms and similitudes, of which I am not able to write...
...find it ironic that an individual's life can be taken away, and very few are affected; yet a number of people take a man hunt personally and call it an infringement of their rights. Something as precious as life becomes insignificant, and something as objective as a search suddenly becomes a personal issue. What has happened to the value of human life that it is worth less than an individual's convenience...