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...just getting started. We have much familiar hardship and vile torment to go. Not to mention the inevitable triumph of the human spirit. One day Adrienne Pargiter (Glenn Close) and Margaret Drummond (Pauline Collins) get to humming the theme from a symphony. The former once studied music seriously; the latter is a missionary who knows how inspiring a good tune can be when you're in the dumps. Or trying to survive in one. Soon enough the prisoners form a symphonic chorus, which sings wordless versions of great orchestral works. Even the more selfish and cynical prisoners--among them recent...
...preconcert publicity had neglected to mention that a free message accompanied the free music: the message of the Christian gospel. The band proceeded to play a set of Beatles-era rock songs with the lyrics modified to reflect the evangelical mission. "Love me do" became "Love me Jesus...
...Some of them might think that it's too late to sign up to host or they might mention that they are willing to host but haven't filled out the form," Chang said. "They're busy students, and this obviously isn't the only thing on their mind...
...description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious figures like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott. For the Duke was only intermittently like them--in The Big Trail, his first starring role, or in the starkly iconographic Hondo, which Wills unaccountably fails to mention. Mostly his character was not a man escaping civilization and its discontents but one bringing them to the wilderness. Discounting the many B westerns he made in his early days, he played more military men, lawmen and empire builders than he did freelance saddle tramps...
Articles on college tuition costs appear as frequently as stories about what's wrong with NCAA intercollegiate sports. But exposes of college spending rarely mention the financial extravagances of NCAA-run athletics. Tuition payers at both affluent and less affluent colleges are bankrolling a vast entertainment industry that distracts from the educational mission and squanders millions. JAMES N. LOUGHRAN, S.J., President Saint Peter's College Jersey City, New Jersey