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...cardinals except you," an intermediary protested. "That's why I am Ottaviani!" replied His Eminence. In all, Photographer Lees (himself an Anglican) photographed 58 cardinals, some of whom have since died. One of his latest, and prize, catches was Poland's courageous and embattled Primate Stefan Wyszynski. who was photographed on a rare two-week visit to Rome in February...
...your own inimitable style you quote Stefan George about the "indignity of being understood." It seems to me that you often do this sort of thing to lure on your readers in the complacent knowledge that you are not going to take them to task for lack of understanding. The blame will be most assuredly leveled at the poets...
...William Empson, whose poems often suggest esthetic scrimshaw, a cathedral carved in a cherry pit. Poetry became a world unto itself, a self-sealing vacuum in which poets engaged in a conspiracy of mutual approval, safe from the embarrassing questions of the bewildered public, safe from what Poet Stefan George called "the indignity of being understood...
...Stefan Gierasch, as a brusque but sympathetic doctor, is a bright spot in the cast. He tells the little girl, who is matching him insult for insult. "Any more dancing like last night, kid, and your vena cava's gonna fall right out." It's the best line in the show...
Welcomed at Rome's Terminal Station by cheering throngs was Poland's indomitable defender of the Roman Catholic faith, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 60. Making his first Vatican visit in three years for the ostensible purpose of helping to prepare for next fall's Ecumenical Council, the tough-minded Primate obviously had another mission as well: to brief Pope John XXIII on the Polish Church's increasingly uneasy modus vivendi with its Communist Caesars...