Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fallen Angels (by Noel Coward) is 30 years old, and was far from robust when young. Fortunately, it has been given no orthodox revival: Noel Coward's limp play has been turned into Nancy Walker's gorgeous plaything. Actress Walker (On the Town, Phoenix '55) has become one of the theater's most wildly and continuously funny clowns, capable of rowdy hauteurs and of a stare that could blight fruit. To Coward's drawingroom yarn of two bored young wives who jointly, jealously, at length drunkenly await the arrival of a Frenchman they both sinned...
...most prominent Greek Orthodox theologian in the country will join the Divinity School faculty next month, Dean Horton announced yesterday. The Rt. Rev. Georges Florovsky, former dean of St. Vladimir's Theological Seminary in New York, will assume his post as Lecturer on Eastern Church History...
Back to the Bible. The new Israel strives obsessively for the forms and spirit of national unity. So far Israel's citizens have been unable to agree on a constitution, because the dominant Socialists refuse to accept rabbinical sway in the state. With only 20% of the population Orthodox, religion has not proved a cementing force. Because rabbis exercise absolute control over marriage and divorce laws, some Israelis have already found a Reno in Cyprus. Israel's state-owned trains do not run on the Sabbath, and the citizen who drives his private car through Orthodox districts...
...plot is no heavy-weight. Country pastor's doctor says he has a year to live; country pastor has beautiful daughter who needs piano lessons in London; country pastor has no money, but takes brave anti-orthodox stand which costs him higher-paid job; wife steals needed money, he returns it; in grip of death, country pastor finds new meaning in life...
...State Department presented the Russian Foreign Ministry with a sharply worded rejection of a Soviet proposal that would give Archbishop Boris of the Russian Orthodox Church permission to live permanently in the U.S. as administrative head of Russian Orthodoxy in North and South America. In return, the Russians had offered to permit Father Louis F. Dion, Assumptionist priest of Worcester, Mass., to replace Father Georges Bissonnette, expelled last March (TIME, March 14), who ministered to the American Roman Catholics in Moscow. There is no similarity, the U.S. note held, between Father Dion's "modest" functions and the powers sought...