Word: priestess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richardson acknowledges that the main problem is determining just what the special functions of a priestess should be. He thinks she should both preach and celebrate the sacraments, concentrating on "the feminine aspect of the Word, the sacraments and pastoral care." This does not mean just women preaching to women: "Men need the ministry of women no less than women need the ministry of men. Or rather, each sex needs the ministry of both sexes in order that the principles of fatherhood and motherhood may be fully expressed in the church...
...last they reach the Holy Bottle, and Panurge puts his question. The Bottle replies, "Trine!"-which is interpreted by the priestess to mean, "Drink!" And here Rabelais, in symbolic language, offers his cup of life to whoever has the taste for it: "We hold not that laughing, but that drinking is the distinguishing character of man." Panurge interprets the oracle to mean that he should take whatever cup life offers him, and drinks it down with a will...
...handy with his long lower jaw; Kerry Lyne, who is (or masquerading as) Gwynne's fiancee throws a hip in the Puddings best hairy-leg tradition. And both Gwynne and Lyne can sing. Nick Benton holds up the awful part of a Cambodian princess with a Brooklyn accent ("The Priestess with the Leastest on the Ball") and does remarkably well...
...still going strong on the momentum she had picked up on the wrong side of the tracks. Her relentless determination to get to the top had flung her from speakeasies to street-singing to bandstands, then onto Broadway and into the startled public eye as the frenzied high priestess of a nameless chaos-with-music that has been wrongly called jitterbugging...
...Oxford Street in Cambridge, Mass. lives a sibyl, a priestess of science. Her devotees take their problems to her as devout ancient Greeks took their insolubles to Delphi. She is no mumbling, anonymous priestess, frothing her mouth with riddles. Her name is Bessie*; she is a long, slim, glass-sided machine with 760,000 parts, and the riddles that are put to her and that she unfailingly answers concern such matters as rocket motors, nuclear physics and trigonometric functions...