Word: paganization
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...languid charm of October Island. While Sam files reports of "no progress" to his superiors, she scouts around the island and one day digs up an hermaphroditic sculpture. Shocked, she heaves it into the volcano. Her Christian mission, she decides is to destroy as many of these pagan relics as possible. The natives find her constant digging odd, but since she tosses everything into Rahabaat's volcano, they find her piety admirable. When, in a moment of hunger, she eats a portion of roast piglet left on the altar of Rahabaat and the god fails to strike her dead...
Everybody is overjoyed. The natives have lost most of their children, are half-Christian, but have their virgin goddess Irma has lost her husband, is half-pagan but has the adoration she loves As for Author March, he has had the pleasure of some deft ironic thrusts, at the expense of almost everybody but the reader nography of irrelevant chatter, its sleep-enticing rhythms, its delight in obsessive enumeration of uninteresting objects, and its aggravating tone of false naivete...
...High Anglican Church Times had criticized "the marriage . . . of the Foreign Secretary, during the lifetime of his [divorced] wife," and chided a "pagan generation" for taking it "as a matter of course" (TIME, Aug. 25). In its next issue, the weekly newspaper noted without surprise that its views had aroused a generally "hostile" reaction...
...Catholic Christian clergymen want to convert the pagan, why do they insist on invading countries that have been Catholic for centuries? And if they do enter such countries, why must they preach a vicious, and-Catholic brand of Christianity...
County Humane Society near Fort Ord, Calif., where Humeston was stationed. During the making of the movie, Private Humeston was given leave to accompany Pagan to Hollywood. As scripted by Charles Lederer, directed by Stanley Donen and pleasantly performed, Fearless Pagan is a merry little romp, with the lion's share of the acting honors going to Fagan...