Word: rhett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Resign." Georgia's Bishop Albert Rhett Stuart tolerated St. John's segregated worship until the revision of Canon 16, which by last January led the other six white Episcopal churches in Savannah to open their doors to Negroes. Hoping to forestall a struggle, Bishop Stuart in March summoned Risley to his office, urged him to yield, suggested that he could lay the blame on Stuart. "I'll resign as a minister before I'll allow Negroes in St. John's," answered Risley...
...what the Rt. Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, said was only the beginning of a year long evangelizing drive, each of the bishops preached in one of twelve towns of the diocese of Georgia, which covers the southern part of the state. "We are trying to present a rational, meaningful exposition of the New Testament faith," said Archdeacon Alfred Mead. Montana's Episcopal Bishop Chandler Sterling, 54, a hearty churchman sporting a silver cowboy buckle on his robes, agreed: "It's time to sweep away old stories and make the Gospels intelligible against the background...
Critics will never admit it, and the reader's good sense denies it, but sometimes bad writing is best. Good writing would never have produced Eliza crossing the ice. Scarlet and Rhett. Ivanhoe. Amber, James Bond, Arrowsmith, Queeg's ball bearings, or any of the Bobbsey twins. The best and most enjoyable bad writing ever done by an American is Hemingway's in To Have and Have Not, but when some anthologist pastes together the definitive collection of Great Moments from Bad Novels, he should give a secondary dedication, at least, to Frederic Wakeman...
...quality that came to be called "bankability" in Hollywood's nervous '50s. For 36 years-a longer span than even Gable's-he was the gaunt good man who did what he had to do. He turned down the fattest male film part ever written-Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind-because he thought he "wasn't quite that dashing," and felt bad about playing the middle-aged rake in Love in the Afternoon. He was right: the Virginian would have thrashed a man who treated Audrey Hepburn that...
What's more, G.W.T.W. has a grand, simpleminded, 19th century story to tell and a gallery of splendid theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...