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Most of the earl's estate, which seems to be the size of Delaware, goes to his only living son Jack (Peter O'Toole), an odd sort who runs about in monk's habit sublimely certain that he is God. "He's a paranoid schizophrenic," his doctor diagnoses, to which Jack's Uncle Charles sputters indignantly: "But he's a Gurney...
...generally making a nuisance of themselves. Under such circumstances, it is hardly safe for a young nun to travel openly. When Joan (Liv Ullmann) must flee her nunnery, loyal Father Adrian (Maximilian Schell) chops her long honey-colored hair into a kind of modified Sassoon, outfits her in a monk's habit and runs with her from the marauding hordes...
...means of flashbacks, Pope Joan correlates the legend with the life of the young evangelist: the nunnery is inter cut with a modern orphanage, Joan's monk father with a back-country Bible thumper, and so on. Invention frequently flags, and there are great barren stretches of the movie that contain no contemporary parallels whatever, presumably because the scenario could invent no 20th century equivalents for the Saxons or the intrigues of the papal court under Leo, who is zestfully portrayed by Trevor Howard...
...life" last week at New York Theological Seminary in Manhattan, where they will live during the vigil. The fasters will take nothing but water for an "indefinite period," hoping to inspire a "new stage of resistance" among Americans. The 14 included familiar peace-movement veterans (David Dellinger, former Benedictine Monk Paul Mayer), younger recruits in their early 20s, and Roman Catholic Priest Tom Lumpkin of Detroit. Lumpkin carried the blessings of Detroit's two auxiliary bishops, Thomas Gumbleton and Walter Schoenherr, who promised their "prayers in this just cause." >For three years Anglicans and Lutherans have been holding international...
Army Game. Chess probably began as a simple diversion. Its origins have been "traced" to everywhere from Ireland and Egypt to an Indian tribe in South America; its inventor was supposedly everyone from Aristotle and King Solomon to a Buddhist monk seeking a substitute for war. The facts seem to support Chess Historian H.J.R. Murray, who says that the game was the "conscious and deliberate invention of an inhabitant of northwest India." The generally accepted date of its origin: A.D. 600. The game, substantially