Word: recitatione
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Not from formal education, which he abandoned in high school. The learning that mattered to him began almost at birth. His childhood in turn-of-the-century Oxford, Miss., was spent listening to Civil War tales told by old men who had been at Shiloh and Appomattox. He absorbed family...
Thus, for roughly half a century, young Catholics were initiated into the sacrament of penance and its promise of forgiveness from God. The results, many Catholic educators agree, were often disastrous. Some young penitents became haunted by the fear of mortal sin and going to hell. Others developed false consciences...
But the resolution sneaks between the dilemma's horns. Howard foils Watchung's design singlehanded by accepting one bribe, passing on another, then telling all at the climactic town meeting. The spectacle of elected officials and corporate legal lizards cowering in ashen fear before a public recitation of...
Split between old film hands and old stage hands, the cast is uneven in performance. Making her Broadway debut as Mary's mother, Myrna Loy, 68, seemed apprehensive in her entrances and exits and confined her delivery to flat recitation. Also making her first Broadway appearance, Rhonda Fleming, 49...
When Psalms of Two Davids opens this evening it promises to be controversial at very least. It is a spectacle that makes demands on its audience. The intricate kind of double-time scheme may puzzle some; the sex and violence, however stylized, may offend others. One transition in the action...