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...voice of British pop star Donovan singing limp lyrics as Francis romps his way through masses of poppies and fields of grain turns the story into a musical tour de farce. St. Francis's own documented hymns to his "brother sun and sister moon" bespeak a pious, almost pagan Christianity, inspired by the ballads of the troubadours he heard throughout his youth. Donovan's tunes tinkle with the stilted sounds of AM radio...
...fighters, working for promoter Sam Silverman, were George Green of the Bronx, N.Y., and Jose Pagan Rivera of Lowell. One member, dallying over his apertif, said the fight was a "smashing success." Rivera took the decision...
...newly recruited mercenaries from nearby Sudan and Zaïre. In consequence, two-thirds of the army's officers are now Moslem, even though Moslems account for only 500,000 of Uganda's 10 million people. (Of the remainder, 5,000,000 are Christians and the rest pagan...
Still another legend has it that a woman named Takla, a follower of St. Paul, was driven into the desert by her pagan father in A.D. 45. Fleeing soldiers intent on raping her, Takla ran into the cul-de-sac of Maloula's canyon. Trapped, she raised her hands in desperate prayer to the Holy Virgin. Miraculously the mountains parted, creating a narrow passage at the top of the valley that permitted her to escape. Villagers still dip their hands in a fountain at the Convent of St. Takla, built into the rock face, in belief that the water...
WHILE THAT'S A SYNOPSIS of the play as it realistic drama, there is in fact little realistic about it. O'Neill won't let his characters have their own personalities and foists symbolic roles upon them. As he confesses in the program notes. "Dion Anthony is the creative pagan acceptance of life fighting eternal war with the masochistic, life-denying spirit of Christianity as represented by Saint Anthony:" Margaret is the "eternal girl woman with a virtuous simplicity of instinct, properly oblivious to everything but the means to her end of maintaining the race;" Cybel is "an incarnation...