Word: pastoralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young romance follows its spontaneous and inexorable course, it comes into conflict with various not-so-natural values of the conventional world. Most obviously, there is the puritanism of the village pastor and others who try to prevent the young lovers from acting in accordance with their emotions. The ancient contrast between sophisticated city and simple country life also becomes an important element in the story, as does the struggle between father and son, between obedience and independence. The movie's ending is touching and appropriate, refraining as it does from giving an easy answer, or any answer...
...shattered windows, his black face sweating in the sun. With his own hands he had laid the foundations four years before, and raised $3,000 in pennies to build it. When at last he went inside, he found about $800 worth of damage. Even worse, everyone but the pastor was afraid to set foot within the building for fear that Tikoloshe might still be there...
...prove that Jesus Christ is stronger than Tikoloshe, Pastor Majola routed out his congregation at midnight to watch him walk alone into the dark church. It did not end the crisis, but it helped. "They are gradually coming back," he said this week. "But when I preach, their eyes wander all the time to the broken pulpit as though they expect to see Tikoloshe suddenly jump out. With God's help I shall get back my church and my people...
...Advance Resignation. Pastor Hale retired to his summer place in Freedom, Me. and thought it over. Then he composed a letter, which was published in his church's Sunday bulletin...
...Negro minister could probably have been hired in a Unitarian church in another part of the country," said Pastor Hale sorrowfully. "It appears that Boston just isn't ready...