Word: algonquin
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...praying, huddling around radios and exchanging bits of information. They were cheered by the news that many of their 24 friends had been released in Beirut or Algiers. "We're waiting, we're praying, we're hoping," said the Rev. Robert Garrity of St. Margaret Mary Church in Algonquin, where parishioners maintained an all-night vigil...
...subject of Brian Moore's 15th novel is the collision of Jesuits and Indians in 17th century North America, a story of hardship, faith and incompatibility. The Algonquin and Huron of what is now Canada regarded the priests as black-robed sorcerers overly concerned with death and water magic. The French missionaries saw "les Sauvages" as beastly innocents fated to burn in hell if they escaped baptism. Heaven was a hard sell because the Indians had no strong ideas about souls and paradise. As one of Moore's intractable red men puts it, "It is because you Normans are deaf...
...courageous priests who followed Samuel de Champlain and the early fur trappers into the region. Laforgue's assignment is to relieve a remote mission at Ihonatiria on the shores of Lake Huron. He and a young French assistant named Daniel must travel by canoe in the company of an Algonquin band that is the birchbark equivalent of a motorcycle gang...
...integrate the modernity of America even while preserving its deep-seated humanity." At the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, he greeted a crowd of more than 3,000 colorfully garbed Indians and Eskimos, using seven native languages ranging from Algonquin and Micmac to Mohawk and a passable Inuit (Eskimo) dialect. In the tiny Newfoundland community of Flatrock (pop. 869), John Paul blessed local codfishing boats from a seaside platform, then radioed, "Good fishing, safe passage and God's blessing" to the fishermen...
Dutka has collected some show business memories: "Cats Director Trevor Nunn giving me a mesmerizing reading of T.S. Eliot's 'Grizabella, the Glamour Cat'; Paul Newman letting me take a rare close look at his souped-up Volkswagen; South African Playwright Athol Fugard sitting in the Algonquin Hotel lobby and analyzing the tragedy of apartheid; Robert Redford asking for my opinions on President Reagan, the press and living in New York City before launching into a discussion of directing in Hollywood...