Word: bernard
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Father James Parker, one of the traditionalist converts, administers the ; program for ex-Episcopalians under the supervision of Boston Archbishop Bernard Law. Parker explains that the new Mass does not significantly alter the Prayer Book: "The changes are minor and few and have been done to reflect current Catholic liturgical scholarship." Among them: the addition of prayers for the Pope and to the Virgin Mary. Perhaps the most important alteration is the omission of the Prayer Book's proclamation of collective absolution of sins. Rome insists that confession be made individually, and a few strategic word changes make it clear...
...Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes. The Shubert Organization's Bernard Jacobs, a man not easily given to rapture, says, "Very few scores prior to production have excited me as much as this one. None, in fact, since My Fair Lady...
...graduate students." "I don't do anything; I work for the city.") The props are simple and the costuming sparse. Ski hats and overcoats are enough to dress all six as victims of Reagan-era policies. "We wear our characters lightly and dress them lightly," says Co-Founder Bernard Sahlins. "Put on a pair of glasses and you've got a businessman." Put on a beret, as Troupe Member Richard Kind does later, and you have Jean-Paul Sartre, unpleasantly surprised to discover that there is an afterlife and that God, played by Mike Hagerty, is a sort of hearty...
...Bernard N. Nathanson, co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, guides the audience through the abortion procedure, explaining that what he has seen through the new technologies of "fetology" have changed his mind about abortion...
...State Department called the study "unfair and inaccurate." It said that in fiscal 1985, which ends Sept. 30, El Salvador would get $321 million in economic aid and $128 million in military assistance. The proportions in fiscal 1986 would be the same. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb rejected the report's contention that aid to repair the ravages of war, like medical care for refugees, is militarily related. He was less insistent on the number of U.S. servicemen in the embattled country. Said he: "We never claimed that we have only 55 military personnel in El Salvador, although we have...