Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stefan Gierasch brings warmth to the Duke of York, but swallows some of his words. Richard Mathews' Mowbray sputters and lacks resonance, and Rex Robbins' Northumberland is colorless throughout. Thomas Ruisinger makes an admirably intense Bishop of Carlisle, but he ought to know that the meter requires that "Hereford" be disyllabic, not trisyllabic. Of the women--who are peripheral in this play--Zoe Kamitses' Duchess of Gloucester remains in the memory for her one powerful scene in the first act. John Duffy's fanfares and Jennifer Tipton's lighting serve the play capably...
With Hindsight. Last week Rio's Roman Catholic Vicar General, Bishop José de Castro Pinto, gave his permission to priests and nuns to join the anti-government marches, and the Catholic clergy issued a statement declaring that "we hold just the principal complaints of our youth." Coming from Brazil's powerful Catholic church, the two moves were serious criticism of Costa's government. Anxious to avoid further violence and disturbed by some army officers critical of government inaction, Costa finally promised to name a "work group," including students, to draft improvements in the schools...
...these bones must have been important. The cloth was of rich purple material and was worked with pure gold. I went on studying the inscriptions on the wall and deciphered them. I found the name of Peter, sometimes in the form of the initials P.E. [for Petrus Episcopus, or Bishop Peter] and as a capital P with three horizontal sidestrokes at the base of the vertical stroke-probably the origin of the key of Peter...
...Wilburn Camrock Campbell, D.H.L., Episcopal Bishop of W. Va. Should matters of the spirit ever require more temporal power, it is reassuring to know that your ecclesiastical authority may be supplemented by your experience as a welterweight boxing champion...
...John E. Hines, D.D., presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...