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...Talcott Parsons yesterday greeted the recent report of Pitirim A. Sorokin on Parson's book with ambivalent, affective reaction. Parsons, professor of Sociology, is chairman of the department of Social Relations and Sorokin is director of the Research Center in Altruistic Integration and Creativity...
...better than average muscles. The law profession attracts portly men with a sub-par muscularity, with a smattering of big-muscled "fighting lawyer" types. Artists have a medium fleshiness and below-par muscularity, whereas theology generally attracts lean, unmuscular, lightly-built men with a minority of the muscular "fighting parson" type...
...occasionally they see the parson in the pub, they will not think him so strange when they pay their rare visit to church at a wedding or armistice service. And it may give him insight in using words more wisely when they come...
...returns and stirs up the maelstrom of hatred and misunderstanding which is basic in his family. His eldest brother hates him; his sister commits incest with the eldest brother in the course of trying to persuade him to be reconciled with the prodigal; the second son, a parson, wrestles in agony with the problem of what to tell his flock about the prodigal's return; the father and mother are incorrigibly domestic and fail utterly to grasp the mighty symbolic drama being played before them. Soon the sister leaves town to have her child elsewhere, and the prodigal dies...
...author's door. Donald Stewart as the eldest son and Edward Bacon as the prodigal were too fitfully passionate for my taste, but again I think the blame lies in the parts. Donald Mork, however, brought his excellent voice and presence to the similar part of the parson and turned in a much better balanced performance. Joanna Brown, too, did a better-rounded job as the sister. George Clark was spotty in the role of the Gardener-Chorus (-God?): at times he was excellent, but he pitched some of his lines too loud and swallowed others. The remainder...