Word: pilgrim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the former headmistress of Virginia's fashionable Madeira School for girls spends her mornings making quilts or writing, her afternoons working with expectant mothers. Even the prospect of eventual freedom holds no great joy. "I'm like a Pilgrim woman captured by Indians," says Harris, "who, when she is returned, belongs to neither world...
...level, Peer Gynt is a series of picaresque adventures, a kind of Rapscallion's Progress as opposed to a Pilgrim's Progress. Yet the rich ambiguity of the play lies in the fact that Peer is some sort of pilgrim. In his most squalid escapades, he knows that he is sinning and fumblingly seeks redemptive grace and the meaning of existence. But since, like Scarlett O'Hara, he puts off thinking about the hard questions until tomorrow, he always loses his way. He traces an allegory of man's brief bewildering journey from his mother...
...long as anyone can remember, the city of Cambridge this month assembled a quaint wooden Nativity scene on the Brattle Square traffic island. Though most unassuming, the tiny plastic animals, pilgrim kings and baby Jesus violate the same constitutional principle raised when Grendel's had its day before the high court...
...WALLS of the chambers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives are lined with paintings depicting the proudest moments in the formation of this state's government, and in the role the state played in creating the federal government. Pilgrim fathers, colonial governors and leaders of the Revolution peer down from their stately poses onto the 160 polished wooden desks. The artworks serve mainly to commemorate the honorable men whose ideals and competence shaped a two-century legacy. But sometimes they provide a humbling contrast with the often politically less-principled actions of their modern-day successors...
...send the youngsters out to the library, where they can get the full scoop on some of the history the show has skimmed. A sort of hybrid of You Are There and the film Time Bandits, Voyagers! (NBC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m.) features Jon-Erik Hexum as a pilgrim from the future who crash-lands in the apartment of a lonely city boy (Meeno Peluce). Hexum, who is rigged out in knee boots, tight trou and leather jerkin, looks to have lost his way en route to a community-theater production of The Pirates of Penzance, but convinces the incredulous...