Word: christe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot is plentifully larded with other lurid items: a suicide attempt, a dream which shows the end of the world coming when everybody panics at seeing some dirty words mysteriously written in the sky, and another dream in which Jesus Christ passes along the Wylie doctrine to the men in the plane about to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima...
...warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children of the Catholic Holy Mother Orphanage at Omura, he admonished, "Work hard, pray to Jesus Christ, and grow to be good...
Juanita was getting ready as far back as she can remember. Her grandmother landed her first part, the role of the Christ child in a Christmas play: "Grandmother was religious enough, but it took a theatrical turn." Soon after she reached New York, Juanita landed a chorus job in the original Show Boat. For the next 15 years she did bits or sang in choruses in The Green Pastures, St. Louis Woman, Sing Out, Sweet Land!, etc. She also organized her own choir, for five years led it over the air. It was not until Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein...
Crichton's story tells of two boys taking their first Communion, who decide out of curiosity to steal and break the Communal Sacrament. According to a nun's superstition, Christ's blood will flow from the sacrament if it is desecrated. The title was drawn from the Bible...
...call-house girls, a nuclear physicist whose atomic know-how is equaled only by his abysmal no-know-how where dames are concerned, a woman who has run away from her botanist husband because she caught him kissing another man in the conservatory, and a Wylie version of Jesus Christ, his name abbreviated to Chris, who shows up in a persistent but inconclusive dream about a B-29 on an A-bomb run. Most of the action takes place in a New York hotel, not far from a doctor's office where the principal character, Philip Wylie (not, Wylie...