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DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The history of the worker-priest movement in France...
...original incarnation in the 4th century, Nicholas was not much of a saint. He accumulated virtue by giving gifts to children and marriageable maidens. But he was also a lean and righteous priest who dispensed his gifts with an eye for punishing the unworthy as well as rewarding the virtuous. Moore's jolly, open-handed Santa changed all that. Then came Dickens and A Christmas Carol in 1843. Within 20 years-thanks in part to countless readings by Dickens himself-Bob Cratchit and his lame son, Tiny Tim, had become the heroes of the holiday, and many an otherwise...
...typical night in Las Vegas. Otherwise sane people gambled away hundreds of thousands of dollars at the craps and roulette tables. Several thousand spectators stood around for hours while a priest and police coaxed a shot gun away from a 29-year-old man who was threatening suicide in the back seat of a taxi. On stage at the Sahara, Comedian Buddy Hackett talked for 56 minutes straight - partly about his boy hood bouts with pimples, caused by lack of sex. And at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Cassius Clay, alias Muhammad Ali, spat carefully on the floor while Eddie...
...viewers are asked for an opinion of the picture as a whole and the reasons for their classification, at other times to discuss the moral implications of a specific point. The Sandpiper, for example, raised a question about religion: Was there thematic justification for making Richard Burton an Episcopal priest rather than a layman? The consensus was yes, but the Legion gave the movie a disapproving B because the Christian (Burton) seems to lose out morally to the naturalist (Elizabeth Taylor...
...deserts his wife to make his fortune and years later returns, repentant, for a macabre homecoming-in effect, a lopsided nightmare filtered through spider webs and gauze. The second story re-creates an ancient sea battle in vividly stylized panels, then leaps centuries to describe how a blind poet-priest, tattooed with Holy Writ to ward off evil, has his ears cut off by the dead heroes whose saga he sings. The third episode is a tale-within-a-tale about a 19th century author of ghost stories who is seemingly destroyed by his own demonology...