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City. Since his political career had gone into eclipse after Guatemala's 1974 elections, Montt had received a call of quite a different kind. A devout Roman Catholic, the general found himself increasingly drawn to the charismatic movement, whose followers believe that God can give them the power to heal, prophesy and speak in tongues. He soon became an active member of the Christian Church of the Word, teaching Sunday school, preaching and serving as academic director of the school...
This glimpse is what Singer's stories constantly offer. To catch it, his readers are not required to believe in demonology but merely to agree that much of life is otherwise inexplicable. Why would a devout Jewish husband tempt his beautiful new bride into adultery with a loutish footman? What could prompt a spirited girl to masquerade as a yeshiva boy and then marry a village's most eligible heiress? In The Cabalist of East Broadway, a morose old Hebrew scholar suddenly abandons New York City for a young wife and fame in Israel. Just as suddenly...
...intertwining themes in the movie center around the search for Charlie Horman and the relationship between the stuffy, Christian Scientists Lemmon, and the freewheeling, impertinent Spacek. A devout, almost chauvinistic patriot when he first comes to Chile, spouting idioms attesting to the greatness of the American Way, Lemmon slowly hardens to the cold reality of the American Way abroad, as he learns that the U.S. government may have been responsible for not only the revolution itself, but for his own son's death as well...
...getting on a little mini-bus in Hawaii with a Bible. He read the Bible the whole trip. I'd never seen anything like it before, and I probably never will again." As Fleming himself will be the first to say, his religion--a non-denominational but highly devout form of Christianity--has been a "tremendous help" in balancing the disparate pressures of family life, finishing school, and playing varsity basketball...
...Mother Superior (Geraldine Page) together represent faith; Dr. Martha Livingstone (Lee Remick), the psychiatrist assigned by the court to the case, embodies reason. The problem with the play lies in its clumsy handling of so diametric a dramatic opposition Perhaps because Pielmeier himself was born and raised a devout Catholic, his writing openly favors faith over reason...