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...grandniece) who tried to complete it in a faithfully Janeish style. Now Novelist Coates has taken another stab at the job. What Coates had to start with was a typically Austenish setup: a poor widower with four unmarried daughters; sundry eligible young men ranging from a peer to a parson; a slew of poor relations, aunts, uncles. Coates tries manfully to convey at least half a dozen of them to the altar with Miss Austen's austere femininity...
These depressing statistics are part of a survey by the National Council of Churches that will be published in full next fall. Editorialized last week's Christian Century: In the old American view, the parson was "the representative 'person' of the community, partaking of its representative lot-economically as well as otherwise. The lady of the manse, as helpmeet to her husband, was a sort of stewardess of the steward of the mysteries of God; she raised children as olive plants at his side...
...modern America's 'money world' Mr. Parson clings to the lower rungs of the economic ladder. He is often dependent on gratuities and tips to make ends meet. Either through necessity or through too casual adoption of alien moral norms, he has become a poor credit risk; the family is deeply in debt. Mrs. Parson? She's on the nine-to-five shift, earning money to keep the children in nursery school so she can earn more to salt away for their college education-or their clothes...
Nelson was born in 1758, at a time when Dr. Samuel Johnson could see little difference between life at sea and life in prison, except that at sea there was the added hazard of drowning. Yet Nelson, a parson's sickly son, lived to cast an aura of gaiety and gallantry over the squalid business of being a ship's officer. He was a prudent sailor, a superb professional in the chancy matters of wind, tide, hemp, oak, canvas and gunpowder, at a time when a man-o'-war was a floating firecracker rather than a seagoing...
...Tale was the finest hour-and-a-half for Director Robert Mulligan, 33, especially in his mob scenes, and Scottish Actor James Donald, 40, who portrayed the cynical Sydney Carton with insight and intensity. A veteran of the Old Vic stage and British movies (White Corridors, Brandy for the Parson), Donald was believable to the story's very last coincidence. As he moved toward the guillotine, he gave a freshly eloquent reading of a famed old line: "It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before." Chances...