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Police Lt. Robert Peale received a call from Mrs. Dennison at 5:25 p.m. that day and began investigating at once. A careful and systematic search revcaled no trace of Dorothy until Friday, August 23, when Peale entered the deserted home of the town parson -- who had been on vacation for several months -- and found the missing girl...
...nature and fill the giant screen with impressive outcroppings of what Hawaiians call papaia. What's more, the principals play with aplomb. Julie Andrews brings both sensuality and sensibility to a role that might easily have wallowed in sweetness and light. And Von Sydow is superb as the parson. He plays him larger than life: as a personification of the historic battle between the Puritan psychosis and the natural man, as a Parson Davidson who encounters, instead of Sadie Thompson, Mother Nature herself...
...hero (Von Sydow) is a prune-faced New England parson insuperably identified with deity. Blankly unable to perceive that the islanders are more Christian than the Christians, this religious imperialist with ruthless righteousness throws down their god of love and raises up in its stead a god of wrath. With their religion in ruins, the Hawaiians lie open to all the blessings of civilization: whisky, syphilis and economic exploitation. By film's end the native nation in only 50 years has withered from 400,000 to less than 150,000 souls, and the parson is forced to assume...
...recalls him, Bill went to work sacking groceries at the A. & P. for 75? an hour, still found time to write for Marshall High School's newspaper The Parrot (whose most famous staffer was Lady Bird Johnson), serve as a cheerleader and bandsman, play the role of the parson in his senior class play One Foot in Heaven, and rack up a scholastic average...
Accepting an honorary doctor of laws degree at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J., Civil Rights Parson Martin Luther King Jr., 36, smiled ecumenically: "Things really must be improving when a Catholic college gives a degree to someone named Martin Luther...