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...present time. The musical presents a group of West German nuns relocated in the Southwestern U.S. They are trying to minister to Mexicans and Indians under the flinty, egocentric but spiritually incandescent will of their superior, Mother Maria (Shirley Booth). Into their midst comes a Negro on the lam, Homer Smith (Al Freeman Jr.). It is Mother Maria's conviction that Homer is the chosen instrument of God for building a chapel in their faith-parched wilderness. Naturally, he builds it. So much for suspense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Coagulated Treacle | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...whole," he continued, "the arts are the chief method of communication of the day. Homer is dead and his world is dead also. But today, like always, without communication, a proper human life is not possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Auden | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

...make up any of them" -and he chooses words for their sound and meaning, not for their familiarity. "One special duty of the poet is protecting the language constantly against corruption and vagueness," he said. "Most students, by the time they leave college, have read Homer and Virgil. But if you spend your early youth ????? more about the meanings of words, words in your own language as well as words in foreign languages. People today use language for other purposes. Scientists, politicians... and when the mass media come in..." He looked very...

Author: By City WITHOUT Walls, | Title: No Headline | 3/12/1970 | See Source »

...Homer and Jethro sang the follow-up to a song about fighting. Name the original song and the follow...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Bruce L. Regan, S | Title: A Wee Mo Weppa: The Crimson Oldies Quiz | 2/6/1970 | See Source »

Columbia sprinter Homer Lane, who had been swimming in only distance events to build his endurance, entered the 100-free Saturday and beat Jim Stolen and Rhodes Scholar Eric Hanson in 51.5 to salvage a bit of glory for the Lions, who are now 0-5 and have not won in a league meet since beating Penn three years...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Swimmers Crush Columbia, 80-22 | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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