" Donald Spoto, in a book about Saint Francis of Assisi, said monks were motivated to call them children, and not wandering poor, because being poor was considered pious and the Church was embarrassed by its wealth in contrast to the poor.

His biographer, Donald Spoto, writes that " Notorious is in fact Alfred Hitchcock's first attempt — at the age of forty-six — to bring his talents to the creation of a serious love story, and its story of two men in love with Ingrid Bergman could only have been made at this stage of his life.

However, despite mostly rave reviews in the U. S. and many countries in Europe, biographer Spoto notes that during its various premiers overseas, " it shocked many, angered some, disgusted others.

Donald Spoto, in a biography of Ingrid Bergman, even claims that " the critics ' denunciations notwithstanding, the film earned back its investment with a sturdy profit ".

For Kramer and others involved in the production, it " was one of the most important events of their lives ," writes Spoto.

The result, described by Hitchcock scholar Donald Spoto, is " the first time Hitchcock has revealed his psychological attraction to the association between sex and murder, between ecstasy and death.

Williams said, “ I ’ ve been working very hard since 1969 to make an artistic comeback … there is no release short of death ”( Spoto 335 ), and “ I want to warn you, Elliot, the critics are out to get me.

* Spoto, Donald.

According to Donald Spoto in Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges, Sturges " invariably paraded on set with a colorful beret or a felt cap with a feather protruding, a white cashmere scarf blowing gaily round his neck and a print shirt in loud hues ... the reason for the peculiar outfits, he told visitors, was that they facilitated crew members finding him amid the crowds of actors, technicians, and the public.

Ingrid Bergman is quoted in the Hitchcock biography The Dark Side of Genius ( 1983 ) by Donald Spoto that the Dalí sequence ran for almost 20 minutes before it was cut by Selznick.

This, according to Spoto, began a literary tradition from which the popular legend of children originated.

Members of the Borough Council are Larry Bongard ( D, 2011 ), Thomas Calabrese ( D, 2013 ), Kenneth Corcoran ( D, 2013 ), Bernard J. Fontana ( D, 2012 ), Dana Martinotti ( D, 2011 ) and Donna M. Spoto ( D, 2012 ).

In the 2009 General Election, Democratic incumbents Bernard J. Fontana ( 2, 943 votes ) and Donna M. Spoto ( 2, 983 votes ) where re-elected over Republican Party candidates John Mitchell

Critic Jack Sullivan has kinder words for Tiomkin's score for Strangers than does biographer Spoto: " o seamlessly and inevitably does it fit the picture's design that it seems like an element of Hitchcock's storyboards ", he writes It is a score that " goes largely uncelebrated.

After developing a " zest for writing " with the newspaper, notes biographer Donald Spoto, he was offered a paid internship in the writing department of 20th Century Fox and moved to Hollywood.

After the seriousness of his previous films, Kramer " felt compelled to answer " for the " lack of lightness " in his earlier films, writes Spoto.

" In a scene noted by Spoto as an example, a Nazi passenger is " barking inanities " about how Germans should purify their race, to which a German-Jewish passenger responds, " There are nearly a million Jews in Germany.

Later on October 8, the police arrested Farace, DeLicio, and Spoto.

matinees ), Adrienne Leonetti as Marie, Steven Alex-Cole as Max, Dennis Warning as Herman, Dean Badolato as Clem, David Miles as Jake, Kevin Wilson as Al, Stephen Dubov as Sheriff, Gene Varrone as Guiseppe, Darren Nimnicht as Pasquale, Tim Flavin as Busboy, Dan O ' Sullivan as Postman, Franco Spoto as Ciccio, Joe McGrath as Doctor, Lawrence Asher as Priest, Michael Capes as Bus Driver, Bill Hastings as Cashier / brakeman, Louisa Flaningam as Cleo, and Richard Muenz as Joe.

Donald Spoto, working on a Monroe biography in the early 1990s and Rachael Bell, making a television documentary years later, both speculated without proof that Murray was covering up an inadvertently fatal dose of a sedative that a well-meaning person had given a despondent Monroe by enema.

Although Spoto and Bell did not investigate the story together, they agree that Murray had no connection to U. S. government officials or criminals.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

James Blish's A Case Of Conscience ( 1958 ) describes a world hiding from its own weapons of destruction in underground shelters ; ;

Part 1, below describes this abstract model by spelling out its assumptions.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

He notes for the first time that the center of gravity of a flying bird does not coincide with its center of pressure, and he describes the construction of an ornithopter, with flapping wings similar to a bird's.

Its title describes its contents: it contains the history of Biblical judges, divinely inspired leaders whose direct knowledge of Yahweh allows them to act as champions for the Israelites from oppression by foreign rulers, and models of wise and faithful behaviour required of them by their god Yahweh following the exodus from Egypt and conquest of Canaan.

Deuteronomy contains the laws by which Israel is to live in the promised land, Joshua chronicles the conquest of Canaan, the promised land, and its allotment among the tribes, Judges describes the settlement of the land, Samuel the consolidation of the land and people under David, and Kings the destruction of kingship and loss of the land.

While scholars suggest the marriage metaphor presented in Hosea describes the relationship between Israel and Yahweh, the metaphor itself remains controversial in its meaning and interpretation in modernity.

In his article Observations on the marital metaphor of YHWH and Israel in its ancient Israelite context: general considerations and particular images in Hosea 1. 2, Ben Zvi describes the role of the Gomer in the marriage metaphor as one of the “ central attributes of the ideological image of a human marriage that was shared by the male authorship and the primary and intended male readership as building blocks for their imagining of the relationship .”

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

Plague is often synonymous with " bubonic plague " but this describes just one of its manifestations.

Darwin's famous closing sentence describes the " grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one.

The first letter describes its moisture properties, with c used for continental air masses ( dry ) and m for maritime air masses ( moist ).

The second letter describes the thermal characteristic of its source region: T for tropical, P for polar, A for Arctic or Antarctic, M for monsoon, E for equatorial, and S for superior air ( dry air formed by significant downward motion in the atmosphere ).

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

In the Encyclopedia of Chicago, Northwestern University Professor Bill Savage describes Chicago fiction as prose which tries to " capture the essence of the city, its spaces and its people.

The Luttrell Psalter, dating to around 1340, describes a grindstone rotated by two cranks, one at each end of its axle ; the geared hand-mill, operated either with one or two cranks, appeared later in the 15th century ;

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

Firstly, cyberspace describes the flow of digital data through the network of interconnected computers: it is at once not " real ", since one could not spatially locate it as a tangible object, and clearly " real " in its effects.

He describes this as the good life, where the organism continually aims to fulfill its full potential.

In an official statement on its origins, TFI partly describes the practice of Flirty Fishing as follows:

This collection of bits describes both the contained database data and its related metadata ( i. e., data that describes the contained data and allows computer programs to manipulate the database data correctly ).