Word: missal
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...late Bishop of Durham, the Rt. Rev. Henley Henson, once acknowledged that "under the description of 'the Anglican Communion,' there are gathered two mutually contradictory conceptions of Christianity." The Anglican Benedictine monks of Nashdom Abbey use the Roman missal and monastic breviary rather than the Book of Common Prayer, and countless Roman Catholic tourists have queued up before the confessionals in Manhattan's St. Mary the Virgin Church only to discover belatedly that they were not in one of Cardinal Spellman's parishes. The ceremony-conscious Anglo-Catholics seem oddly yoked in brotherhood with low-church...
Actually the scandal started 180 years ago, when a French artillery general, Pierre-Ambroise Franqois Choderlos de Laclos. published a novel that seriously proposed and wittily elaborated a science of seduction, a yoga of the boudoir. The book survives as an unholy missal of impudicity, a small black classic that, in literary opinion, excuses its sins with its skill. Three years ago. Director Roger Vadim (And God Created Woman) announced his intention to make a movie of it in modern dress. As one man. the powerful Society of Men of Letters rose to protest an artistic crime quite as heinous...
...Like It continues nightly except Monday until July 10, rehearsals will be underway for the second production, Jean Anouilh's Antigone, which opens July 12. For its third presentation, the Harvard Summer Players have invited Joseph Everingham, Director of Drama at MIT, to direct George Bernard Shaw's Missal lance. It will open July...
...about a missile (missal?) loaded with an anti-warhead of tranquilizing pills (or gas) appropriately named U4EA...
...slip through his fingers, Eleanor quietly died. She lies at Fontevrault, between Henry and Richard. The effigy on the tomb of the greatest and worldliest woman of her time shows a figure peacefully perusing a book-which, as one of her apologists said, need not be regarded as a missal...