Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some hazy psychological stuff and a tangle of flashbacks hamper "The Long Night," but nevertheless the picture is a success. Henry Fonda, who shoots one of the slimiest characters seen recently on the screen, recaptures what will have to be called his "faith in humanity,' and after keeping off the police for a long night full of well-filmed memories, goes with hope to his trial...
...faith in humanity, which many people may find hard to take, is personified agreeably in Barbara Bel Geddes, who is convincingly charming and pure in her film debut. The thorn in the side of Fonda and Bel Geddes's true love, velvet-smooth Vincent Price, complicates the plot by trying to seduce the girl and torture Fonda with an induced inferiority complex. For you see, he is but a working man, who little understands the complicated nature of woman. It takes a while, but Fonda finally realizes that the ladies are as simple as he had thought, and that everyone...
...story of the controversy between Dr. Fisher of Canterbury and Bishop Barnes of Birmingham [TIME, Oct. 27], I note a penetrating description of a general problem of a "liberal" interpretation of the Christian faith. But I believe the conclusion that "the Apostles' Creed means what it says" is an oversimplification of a much deeper problem...
...being held in the Church of England. The Report concludes: "We also recognize that both the views outlined above are held by members of the Church, as of the Commission, who fully accept the reality of our Lord's Incarnation, which is the central truth of the Christian faith...
Andrew bought it. From that time on he was lost and godless in the eyes of Bishop John Helmuth and the others. In accordance with the 17th article of the Amish doctrine, the Dordrecht Confession of Faith,* the Mennonite "mite" or "shun" was placed against him. It declares: ". . . we believe and confess that if anyone . . . is so far fallen as to be separated from God ... he must also be shunned so that we may not become defiled . . . [and] that he may be made ashamed...