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Sunday, November 21 THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner in Say One for Me, about a Broadway priest. Color...
...simply by the Gospel alone, the early German Mennonites were killed or outlawed by Catholics and Protestants alike. A century later, England's George Fox and the Friends (now 122,000 strong in the U.S.) were persecuted for trying to build a church free of ritual, creed or priest and based on God's "Inner Light," granted to every man. The turn of the 18th century saw the birth of the pietistic, back-to-the-Bible Brethren movement in Germany-a reaction against the still remembered horrors of the Thirty Years' War and the spiritual rigidities...
From all this, Hawkins assumes that Stonehenge was the focal point of an early British civilization. It was the calendar by which the Britons planted and harvested their crops, a shrine where they worshiped their gods and buried their dead. It was also a device that priest-rulers could have used to enhance their power. On the day or night that their stone computer predicted an eclipse, they might well have summoned their subjects to Salisbury Plain to observe a spectacle that terrorized most ancient peoples. When the eclipse started, the priests probably intoned the prayers that enabled...
...Kind of Priest...
Here's where the timing comes in. With the exception of Charles Braun as Doctor and Leonard Sussman as Priest, the actors in this show do not develop regular enough patterns of expression and reaction. They talk with the same voices and swagger or strut the same way, but the rhythm of their speech, the length of time they take to respond aren't consistent. They don't, as they might, provide sure indications of the temperaments of the characters...