Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord of the Flies. William Golding's widely read novel of human frailty and the force of sin in society has been translated into an adventure story about castaway boys on a desert island that is often shocking but never frightening. Golding's harrowing allegory has been lost, and all that is left is an ineptly acted movie that will anger the book's partisans, perplex the uninitiated...
...MOST REV.) ARCHBISHOP LORD FISHER OF LAMBETH
Perhaps it was impossible to film Lord of the Flies and keep Golding's harrowing allegory intact. In reducing the novel to a grisly, occasionally shocking adventure story, the producers have chosen not to risk failure. And so they have failed...
...because they have a vocation. Not Sister Virginia. Instead of a vocation, she had a widowed father who wanted to get rid of her. At 14, she entered the Convent of Santa Margherita in the north Italian town of Monza, took the veil two years later. Her father, the Lord of Monza, not only managed to save the expense of a dowry but also pocketed the bulk of his daughter's personal fortune and was left free to range the world, fighting the Moors, the English and the Turks. Based on trial records opened only six years...
Sister Virginia fought the Devil. She locked herself in her cell, flogged her naked back until the blood came, sent precious gifts to Our Lady of Loreto, prayed endlessly that "the Lord would free me from that passion." But several nuns who were Sister Virginia's close friends acted as if they were on Satan's payroll: when the time came, it was one of them who tossed the convent key over the wall to Osio...