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...presenting several vignettes of different people’s lives, the play tackles complex themes that are at times funny, at times harrowing. A professor lecturing on consciousness ironically loses touch with reality; a young woman is determined to leave the world she knows to become a nun; an old man faces his own mortality as a therapist tries to breathe life back into him; a broken man struggles with the death of his mother; a couple of world travelers miss their opportunity for love...
...guerrilla war against the invading Chinese; in Dharamsala, India. Inheriting the leadership role from her father, a former chieftain, Pachen was captured and imprisoned for 21 years after attempting in 1960 to flee to India. Her autobiography, Sorrow Mountain: The Journey of a Tibetan Warrior Nun came out in 2000. RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. Of WIM DUISENBERG, 66, Dutch first president of the European Central Bank, who will step down in July 2003, three years before the end of his term; in Maastricht. On his appointment, the French government claimed it had reached an agreement that he would retire early to make...
...critical analysis of William Faulkners Requiem for a Nun sits a few shelves away from a tattered cookbook...
Sister Hong's brainwashing session began when her Bible class ended. Five peasant women had led the Catholic nun to a house in a distant village in Henan province two years ago so that she could teach the life of Jesus. Suddenly, the women vanished and a man entered. For the next five days he refused to let her leave and forced her to debate the Bible. He said the day of judgment is nigh. Jesus has returned. China?the Great Red Dragon from the Book of Revelations?faces destruction. By the end, "I was dizzy. I was confused...
...Florinda’s sister, played wonderfully by Kirandeep K. Deol ’05. The scenes involving Hellena and Willmore are among the most dynamic and entertaining in the play. Hellena’s vivacious personality doesn’t quite fit the future path she has selected (nun), but Willmore comes along in time to make her reconsider...