Word: farleyism
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...drama puts a complacent middle-aging priest, Father Tim Farley (Milo O'Shea), in sometimes stormy but under-lyingly tender conflict with an ardent, rebellious and idealistic seminarian, Mark Dolson (Eric Roberts). In its simplest terms, this is the perennial skirmish between youth and age, between those who have seen too little and those who have seen too much, between those who want to change the world radically and those who have made their abject peace with principalities and powers...
...Father Farley has made his peace and lost his vocation. In one agonizing moment late in the play, he shakes his head in bewilderment and says, "I don't know what I believe any more." The scene is made all the more poignant since we have been seeing what he does put his faith in. He is a potent tippler of sparkling burgundy and relishes his Mercedes. With Gaelic guile he manipulates parish politics from his pulpit. He does not so much preach to his flock as poll it. What his parishioners want to hear, he tells them...
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S. Naipaul
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger
NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙ Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙ Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙ Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙ Sex in History, Reay Tannahill ∙ Show People, Kenneth Tynan...