Word: devoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE Devi (1960). Indian Film Maker Satyajit Ray, best known for The Apu Trilogy, directs the story of a devout Indian whose religious fantasies lead to domestic tragedy...
...more dissimilar types would be hard to imagine. Tarkenton is a devout perfectionist who views winning as an extension of the Christian ethic. "A team must have soul," he told Asinof. "It must be rooted in love for each other. There's just no other way to play football...
Elson's book points up the interesting origins of the two founders. Henry Luce: son of a devout Presbyterian missionary, born in China, his fondest memories of Fourth of July celebrations when the Americans clasped hands in the "hush of eventide" and sang My Country, 'Tis of Thee. He never could forget "a shameful, futile, endless two hours one Saturday afternoon when I rolled around the unspeakably dirty floor of the main schoolroom with a little British bastard who had insulted my country." Such experiences, he later felt, gave him a "too romantic, too idealistic view of America...
...because they are afraid of getting hooked. Mrs. Jay Sheveloff. 30, of Boston, has seen the "horrible" specter of her in-laws watching continually; she refuses to have TV around -at least until her husband finishes his Ph.D. A number of nonowners ascribe their resistance to religious motives. A devout Episcopal couple from Florida, who prefer anonymity, consider TV "contaminating." None of their five children (now aged 13 to 25) was allowed to watch. What about them now? Their oldest son, now a high school teacher in California, admits to smoking pot and is raising his two-year...
Pomposities and Allusions. A devout convert to Anglo-Catholicism, Eliot consciously designed The Cocktail Party as a spiritual parable. It involves an underground league of "Guardians," apparently just as vain and frivolous as any of their social peers, but secretly dedicated to guiding others to salvation. Three characters in the play indicate Eliot's idea of the two paths to that goal: Celia, a married man's mistress, is guided to a saintly martyrdom ("crucified very near an anthill"); an unhappy couple named Edward and Lavinia are pointed toward the quotidian heroism of accepting their own and each...