Word: often
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Because the nun must maintain her faith and above all her chastity, and the Marine, relinquish his love for her, pure or normal as it is, the film's value is reduced to a light, often humorous level. Drama gives way to scenes of Platonic tenderness and dedication between the two. These are sensitively enough handled so that while Sister Anglea undergoes only brief moments of temptation and inner turmoil, and Mr. Allison takes his fate quickly in stride, this story of a Marine and a nun on a lush Pacific island is a first-rate fairy-tale...
...actual fact, admits one Macfadden editor, so many changes are made in rewrite that "the confessor would not recognize her own confession." Most editors are less intent on publishing fact than on inserting enough fiction to give their stories the ring of truth; often a single story is patched together from unrelated episodes in newspaper clips or readers' suggestions. The magazines rely heavily on free-lance contributors (top price: 5? a word), who have a free rein. Most writers and editors are women. Says True Confessions (circ. 1,339,922) Editor Florence Schetty: "Even confessions stories by men somehow...
...Shneur Zalman (1747-1812), a brilliant young Talmudist in White Russia who became a disciple of Hasidism. This was a movement of holy men (zaddiks) and their followers who reacted against the arid, hairsplitting Talmud-boring of 17th century Judaism with a kind of joyous mysticism; they have often been compared to the followers of St. Francis of Assisi. Shneur Zalman burned with Hasidism's hitlahavut (spiritual enthusiasm), but he recognized the need for organization and teaching as well, and he steered a middle course between mystical rapture and the traditional emphasis on study. He gave his followers...
...followers are sure that he is right, and every year some 100 young Lubavitcher missionaries travel all over the U.S. to spread his word to other Jews. Often they find little or no understanding. But, says one of his disciples of the Rebbe: "He is to us what Moses was to Israel in his time. Not that the Rebbe is to be compared to Moses, like whom there has been none other since. But the Rebbe is like a little Moses...
...right to educate his child in the atmosphere of a Catholic school is convinced that an integral education-a complete education-is possible only where a child receives thorough and systematic training in man's obligations to know, love and serve God his Creator and Redeemer. Protestants very often misunderstand the parochial school. Too often they repeat the slogan about the Catholic school being a 'divisive' influence on American society...