Word: clerical
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...presidential stronghold. They include state governors and city mayors, and the senior national and state political leaders of the President's party. After them comes a helter-skelter militia of citizens, often sniping at one another, enemies of the President as well as friends: banker, lawyer, merchant, chief, cleric, doctor, scholar, journalist, student, housewife. Some advance to plead a cause, others to extol, still others to criticize and fix blame...
...exception. At Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, where campus dissensions are exacerbated by increasingly divergent views on the application of the Christian Gospel, the search for a new president has lasted for more than two years. Last week Union's board finally settled on a personable, activist cleric whose chief credentials are administrative ability and courage: the Rt. Rev. J. (for John) Brooke Mosley, 54, former Episcopal Bishop of Delaware and currently Deputy for Overseas Relations of the Episcopal Church...
...occasional Roman Catholic," she is "convinced that, once married, they would be better integrated in life, more capable of solving problems which surround them." By no great coincidence, the actress's next film is The Priest's Wife, in which she falls in love with a handsome cleric played by Marcello Mastroianni...
Lickerish Cleric. Not all of Peckinpah's devices work so well. An engraved face on a $5 bill waggles its eyes suggestively and needlessly as Cable ponders spending the money on Hildy. But such isolated faults seem insignificant alongside Peckinpah's larger virtues. Even his rambling lends the story a leisurely lyricism rare in films today...
...actors all perform immaculately. Jason Robards gives the screen performance of his life. Stella Stevens is cynical and wistful with equal facility, and David Warner is wonderfully funny and moving as the lickerish cleric. Together with Peckinpah's usual stock company of Martin and Jones, they make the old desert as real and recent as yesterday. With this film, Peckinpah unmistakably becomes the successor to John Ford, not only as a director of westerns but as an American film artist...