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...items--dragoons drop their rifles on each other's feet, march in the wrong direction, and traipse through interminable jerky morrices with the female chorus of "twenty lovesick maidens" (some twelve in number). One budding Cantinflas, Kenneth Tiger, is even made to flourish that old gag prop, the rubber sword...
...heretics called Cathari (from the Greek word for pure), or Albigenses, from the town of Albi, one of their centers in Languedoc, were stamped out in 35 ruthless years of fire and sword. But as the centuries rolled on, they have had a measure of revenge against the Roman Catholic Church. The hatred generated by the crusade prepared the way for Protestantism. And in modern France, where popular apostasy from Catholicism is today wider and deeper than anything Pope Innocent could have imagined, the ancient heresy of Catharism is enjoying a remarkable revival of interest...
...industrial society, codes the like of which exist today probably only in the yet un-detribalized parts of Africa. But it is not merely the scale of life-where a man's wealth could be counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether he carried a sword or a slingshot -but its quality that is baffling to the modern mind. Homeric life was not merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There is a strong sense of reality in the Homeric world...
Yoshida early pushed Dentsu into radio and television production. In Dentsu's television studios, agency scriptwriters grind out soap operas, mystery thrillers (Mr. Himana Steps Out) and easterns (about sword-swinging samurai). By pio neering in commercial radio and televi sion, Yoshida was elected to the boards of 20 broadcasting companies-a fact that gives Dentsu a big edge in placing its programs and commercials...
...Bernard Shaw. 'You are,' he said, 'my fifth favorite actor, the first four being the Marx Brothers.' " Knighted in 1934, Hardwicke well remembers the occasion. King George V could not quite catch the actor's name, finally gave up and, "lifting his jeweled sword, dubbed me knight. 'Sir Samuel Pickwick,' he proclaimed...