Word: faith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Renewed Faith. Without stopping the show, Farrell gradually had the whole thing restaged, scene by scene. Heartened by letters from some of his customers, he asked the reviewers to come back and take another look. Three of them felt up to it, but the verdict came out just about the same. At losses ranging from $15,000 to $23,000 a week, Farrell, who has watched almost every one of the 100 performances, stuck to his conviction that his show was the best musical on Broadway. As a visitor to Manhattan, he has seen every musical since 1914. Rich...
...current adventure was ended. But last week, when holiday crowds pepped up the box-office take, he took on a new determination to keep the show going. His taste in entertainment was improving, too: he had seen the new musical hit, South Pacific, and it had "renewed my faith in the theater." Now he wants to do a show as good as that...
Profession of Faith. Jesuit Feeney alternately dazzled them with his erudition and convulsed them with his histrionics. He enjoyed doing impersonations of celebrities uttering incongruities (Franklin Roosevelt talking about the state of the church, Katharine Hepburn broadcasting a prizefight). All of Boston College's dismissed teachers taught at the center. Months before last fortnight's uproar, one of them, Dr. Fakhri Maluf, wrote an article for the center's quarterly publication, From the Housetops, which has been belaboring Jesuit "liberalism...
Father Feeney was confident last week that the Pope would eventually back up his stand. To some of his students he announced: "I don't care what happens to me after this. I have made my profession of faith to my country." But though he said he would bow to any disciplinary measures his superiors might take, Father Feeney was still in Boston, still apparently making no move to amend his first disobedience in failing to take a new job at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross. And in spite of Archbishop Cushing's decree...
...Through such carefully prepared reports on education and life at Harvard the Council has made great contributions to the College. The reputation it acquired for these reports has not been wholly wrecked by its increasing political activity, and the present report will probably bolster up many people's flagging faith in the Council...