Word: priests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the My Lai atrocities came to light in 1969 had a tiny village caused such an uproar. Father Adrian Hastings, a British Catholic priest, alleged that Portuguese government troops had gone on a murderous rampage in the Portuguese Mozambique village of Wiriyamu last Dec. 16. The priest, quoting reports from Spanish missionary priests, claimed that Portuguese soldiers killed some 400 villagers suspected of sympathizing with Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front...
Gordon was a friend of Eliot, and Ginsberg, and Creeley, and Lowell, and Pound. He was, as Pound put it, "no capon priest, but a man o' men." Although Harvard, like any other college, has more than its fill of undergraduates who write sestinas, and think in Alexandrines, like Bunthorne in Patience or Fitzgerald's D'Invilliers, these were not Gordon's men and women. His were the honest, hard-working poets, who loved life, and loved their craft, and wrote, and thought, and lived, far from the ivory tower of academics...
...missionary's announcement came after another priest, Adrian Hastings, charged that Portuguese troops had massacred the residents of the village...
...characters live. In fact he had framed his production with a mimed prologue and epilogue, both laid in church. Accompanied by the ringing of bells and the chanting of plainsong, the show opens with King Duncan receiving communion and ends with his son Malcolm being crowned. The officiating priest, crosier in hand, also functions as the Old Man who talks with Ross, and later as the Messenger who urges Lady Macduff to flee with her children...
Superfly TNT is at least a shred more believable. It shows some flashes of hard wit and has a good, coarse sense of the criminal trades. Priest (Ron O'Neal), former street hustler and cocaine pusher, is now in residence in Rome with his fine woman (Sheila Frazier), living high but a little aimlessly. What finally gets him interested is the plight of a West African nation fighting for independence against a repressive colonial regime. In return for a leather pouch full of diamonds, and the chance to do a little something constructive for a change, Priest gets...