Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's most uninhibited critic, the old man has taken savage swipes at the royal family, the Anglican Church, even Winston Churchill-and now the subject is sex. On the eve of Edinburgh's International Festival of the Arts, which was to offer plays featuring a homosexual embrace, two topless actresses and a sketch about the genitals of primitive man. Malcolm Muggeridge was moved to take the pulpit at St. Giles' Cathedral and inveigh against such "illiterate filth." "Have what passed for being art forms ever before been so drenched and impregnated with erotic obsessions, so insanely...
...secular mind, the vision of monks and nuns living silently and praying ceaselessly behind cloister walls has always seemed, at best, a kind of regrettable eccentricity-harmless enough, but useless too. Yet the Roman Catholic Church, and such Protestant sympathizers as the Monks of Taizé in France, have insisted that the contemplative life is a special and noble vocation. The fathers of Vatican II declared in a 1965 decree that "communities that are entirely dedicated to contemplation are a glory of the church and a wellspring of heavenly graces." While some adaptation to modern life might be in order...
After pointedly taking issue with the threat of violence posed in the manifesto, the United Presbyterian Church nonetheless invited Forman to speak be fore its General Assembly last May. And in the most generous response yet to Forman's complaint, the Presbyterians authorized a drive to obtain $50 million for general works against poverty...
That is where Woody's road ends, in front of an old church that Ray (James Broderick) and Alice (Pat Quinn) have converted into a communal dorm for wandering kids. Life seems just about perfect-or "together," as the kids say -but Penn sees destruction all around. Ray and Alice, playing foster parents, bitch away at each other in rivalry for the affections of a reformed junkie named Shelly (Michael McClanatha). Woody lies dying in a Brooklyn hospital of Huntington's chorea, a hereditary affliction of the nervous system that Arlo may not escape. When Woody and Shelly...
What follows is diminuendo. Ray and Alice remarry and, in a wedding ceremony of empty celebration, realize that the dream is finally and forever dead. In the film's shattering last scene, Alice stands alone on the church steps, her bridal veil blowing in the winter wind as Arlo's voice is heard on the sound track quietly singing the song's refrain: "You can get anything you want /At Alice's Restaurant / 'Ceptin Alice...