Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against birth control hardened, culminating in the 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii (On Christian Marriage). Reacting to the acceptance of birth control by the Anglicans' significant Lambeth Conference that year, Pope Pius XI declared, in accordance with the natural-law theory, that since the sexual act had a procreative intent, it was a violation of divine will to interfere with it. Paul VI substantially reaffirmed that view...
...westerns go, this one doesn't. It saddles up a big-name cast, but the giddyap! gets mired in a lot of giddy yapping. The intent was to lighten carnage with comedy; the result is heavy-handed Grand Old Horse Opry...
This led us to believe that somehow the various numbers listed on the album could be used to derive the proper telephone number. For example, "ten to six" would mean 1026. English telephone numbers consist of an exchange, which gives three letters, and four digits. We felt that the intent of the unhelpful recorded message was to tell us that if the call were placed at the proper time, a more enlightening message might be given. There are several times mentioned on the album: Wednesday 5am, Friday 9 am, Saturday 5:50pm, etc. (Transatlantic time and day changes would have...
...Director Atkinson and the assembled artists in the show well know, optional art is deadly serious in intent. It is meant to give even the most inexperienced viewer a way to express compositions of his own, to allow him to share with the artist in the pleasure-and catharsis-of creation. But if catharsis implies tragedy, to most gallery-goers optional art ranks as high comedy. Milwaukee digs op primarily because...
...wonderful--the clarity of language and the play's comic potential are unfolded in the exciting and inventive reinterpreation of dialogue and characterization, reinterpretation remaining faithful to Shakespeare's intent in its bawdy humor, essential ambiguity, and emphasis on magic. Reviewing Orson Welles' film Falstaff, the Crimson's Peter Jaszi attributed to Welles "a single overriding concern: to make the text, both the words and the visual images implicit in them, wholly and completely his own, and thereby to make them ours." This can, with A Midsummer Night's Dream, be said of Mayer, and his success is very much...