Word: priesting
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...confused duo, Thacker and Black ran both give solid performances, particularly in their songs. Yet the real strength of the production lies less with the leads than the play's secondary characters--the despicable goody two shoes (Amy Dolan), the transgressing priest (Wally Engelhardt), the sex starved classmate (Peter Heuchling), and most notably, the vituperative senior nun (Carol Estey...
...simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just as they are about to kill the black robes of Ihonatiria. Parkman's history tells of a priest who knew enough astronomy to impress the natives with a prediction of an eclipse. Moore turns this event into a scene that belongs in the Movie of the Week...
...autonomous city-state throughout the Middle Ages, Geneva welcomed the Reformation in the 16th century and welcomed as its priest the fierce young French theologian Calvin. He not only preached against sin but organized a * theocratic state that punished it. Wearing jewelry or playing cards was made illegal. A woman caught in adultery was drowned in the Rhone. A theologian who disputed Calvin was burned at the stake. Yet Calvin's teachings attracted followers from all over Europe, and his disciples spread his stern version of Protestantism to France, Scotland and New England...
...Europe as the Nazis began retreating are suggested in a single sentence: "When a war ends one forgets how much older oneself and the world have become: it needs something like a piece of furniture or a woman's hat to waken the sense of time." A simple parish priest delivers a worldly homily: "All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow...
...local garbage, then retracted the statement and recommended the use of chlorine bleach instead. In Santa Barbara, Calif., a 35-year-old drifter was found shot to death in December, and a flyer was circulated threatening more violence to the homeless who camp there. Jerry Hill, an Episcopal priest in Dallas, says that people who camp at the outskirts of the city endure "tremendous abuse by young punks who prey on them and beat them, sometimes very sadistically...