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Dean, somehow, manages to remain oblivious to the inanities of the script. As in his other films, his portrait of inarticulate and rejected adolescence is magnificently--and almost frighteningly--convincing. Puffing furtively at a forbidden cigarette, rubbing his hair in sudden embarrassment--every gesture fits, and even some of the lines sound right...
...laws, supposedly intended to dis courage promiscuity, fail because devices forbidden for contraception are actually on general sale "to prevent disease." and are easily available even to the unmarried...
...share forbidden sweets with mixed emotion...
...gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show is Sister permitted the luxury of a bath-in liquid Lux detergent. Scratching is forbidden: it might damage her coat. Panting is frowned upon: it might destroy her air of "distinction and dignity...
...often in one form or another that they, and the answers to them, have become almost cliches. But the man who asked-and answered-those above was no cliche-monger. He was the late French Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), a noted paleontologist who was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church to publish his philosophical writings, which have since sparked a posthumous cult of "Teil-hardism" in France. Recently published in the U.S. is a book Teilhard wrote 35 years ago - a spiritual meditation on the cosmology he later developed from a scientific viewpoint in The Phenomenon...