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...that where a man lives is a vital part of man's true history, he traces his roots in the past of Yorkshire's lonely and beautiful North Riding, and describes the people who lived on its moors-farmers, millers, poets, soldiers, and more than one notable parson like Laurence Sterne. In effect, he says, "I am the sort of man these men were...
...corporation in 1963 defies the logic of Adam Smith, the absent-minded professor who believed that hired managers would become negligent and sloppy and be overwhelmed by men in business for themselves. The expansion of U.S. markets through a steady population growth belies the gloomy forebodings of Parson Malthus, and modern capitalism's increasing ability to adapt itself readily to change has proved that Karl Marx was a better journalist than prophet. Today's U.S. economy would surprise even those who helped to shape its past. Alexander Hamilton would be shocked by the size of its mounting debt...
Winter Light. Sweden's cinematic poltergeist, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, once more haunts the dark and chilly corridors where Man loses God, and once more the soul in torment seems to be his own. Bergman is the son of an austere Evangelical Lutheran parson who molded the boy with icy constraint and puritanical tyranny, and of a mother who was remote from both son and husband. To Bergman his parents were "sealed in iron caskets." This boyhood gave him the permeating motifs for his work: "God and the Devil, Life and Death, the drama of the couple...
Heavens' vicar and Winter Light's parson are as different as England and Sweden: both have problems all right, but Sellers' troubles are worldly ones. Or are they? In the last scene Sellers is nowhere to be seen, but his quavering voice is heard singing a hymn as he orbits the earth, the first Bishop of Outer Space...
...century Newtonbrook, Ont., now swallowed up by an expanding Toronto. The second son of an itinerant $700-a-year Methodist minister, Pearson likes to say: "We were rich in everything but money." His father, the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, who was known to his congregations as "the baseball-bashing parson," taught his sons baseball, hockey, football, and a firm sense of Methodist duty. Lester also learned something about politics from his maternal grandfather, who lost every time he stood for Parliament...