Word: books
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...that the Church of England forsook the Latin liturgy and began worshiping in the king's English. By the church's good fortune, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer edited the original Book of Common Prayer with such felicity that it has stood for centuries as a literary masterpiece. Its familiar phrases strike to the Anglican mind and heart and indeed can stir anyone who loves God or great language: "Almighty and most merciful Father . . . We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things...
...Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of Anglicanism, the language of the venerable book remained remarkably close to that of the 16th century, even after its most recent revision in 1928. But Episcopalians now are on the verge of a substantial break with Cranmer. Next month, after three years of trial use, a modernized prayer book will come up for final approval at the church's General Convention...
...wanted to make use of the latest liturgical scholarship, not only by modernizing texts but by reorganizing the parts of the service logically. The Gloria, for instance, comes much earlier than it did in the 1928 edition because that was the practice in the early church. The new prayer book also offers a choice of a fairly traditional or a modern text in the most frequently used services, and so many options within each that the priest can use many more different combinations than before. One controversial innovation is "the Peace," a pause in the service when customarily reticent Episcopalians...
...script, adapted from Peter Gent's novel of the same name, is fairly true to the book. Like gent's novel, the movie captures the urban cowboy humor of the locker rooms, it delights in the sadistic pedantry of the coaches who see football as a business and players as equipment, and it squirms with pain from beginning to end. For caricatures, the supporting characters are remarkable--they put a lot into their limited parts. G.D. Spradin as Coach Johnson has a fear-inspiring glimmer in his eye and a loud piercing voice; he's an army sergeant...
...play contains a lot of magic and spectacle, handled most ingeniously (and without the 140-man stage crew that Charles Kean needed in 1857). When Miranda is put to sleep, she slumbers levitated a couple of feet above ground. The instantaneous appearance and disappearance of the banquet (borrowed from Book II of Vergil's Aeneid) is truly miraculous, as are the periodic flashes of St. Elmo's fire all over the place...