Word: coffining
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...grandmother saying, "Thoughts can hurt more than real things," unaware that her grandson is greedily eyeing her pocketbook; at another instant we see Benji praying to God--in the solitude of his bathroom; at a third moment we find Caldwell, Benji's young junkie friend, lying in a coffin dressed in a three-piece suit that he never would or could have worn while alive...
...North Vietnamese farmer mourning over the coffin of his eight-year-old daughter, killed in the 1972 Christmas bombings...
...ONLY MAJOR problem with this stirring masterpiece is the Tavinis' occasionally heavy-handed use of symbolism to hammer home a point. During the funeral procession for a slain Mafioso, pall-bearer Gavino fantasizes a statue of his father in place of the sculpted saint perched atop the coffin. And if that does not constitute laying it on with a trowel, consider this: before settling down to the business of lovemaking, a young man persuades his partner to smoke his cigar with the ash end in her mouth. A hint of things to come, perhaps...
...Susan Coffin, a third-year student at the school, fits Swain's description. She says that attending a non-Catholic school "puts your own tradition in context. Since I've been at Harvard, I've become very aware that I'm very Catholic. When you grow up in a tradition, you're so submerged in doctrine you often can't articulate...
...Coffin typifies most Roman Catholic students at divinity schools in that she encounters problems not with the school, but with the Catholic Church. The Church offers few professional job opportunities for lay people. In Coffin's words, "the only thing you can do is religious education." Consequently, the Church pays less attention to students training for non-clerical religious careers than the students would like. Coffin switched from the MTS to the M.Div. program to open other career options besides college teaching, but still is uncertain about her future. She foresees no special problems being a woman entering the Church...