Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mississippi Mermaid, another Truffaut film, comes to the Brattle on Wednesday. It seems corny once in a while, but it's a technical masterpiece. Besides, everything is great to look at: The film was made on the beautiful island of Reunion off the African coast, and it stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Still another Truffaut flick, The Bride Wore Black starring the wonderful Jeanne Moreau, is the second feature on the bill...
...century of history. As in other denominations, Northern and Southern Presbyterians split on the slavery issue in 1861. Efforts to heal the rift brought the churches' two general assemblies to tandem meetings in Louisville last week, with a joint session for the formal unveiling of a plan for reunion. But the encounter was still as tentative as the mating dance of sand crabs...
...U.S.A., is three times the size of the Southern denomination, the 900,000member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Many Southerners feel that in a merger they could be swallowed up by the Northerners, who are both less conservative in doctrine and more committed to social action. The reunion plan reflects this liberalism. At their ordination, for example, Southern Presbyterian ministers would no longer be required to accept the Bible as "the infallible rule of faith and practice" but only...
...required support: 75% of the church's presbyteries. Some conservatives, however, are quitting the battle. Last year more than 55,000 of them, mostly in the Deep South, established their own National Presbyterian Church. As many as 200,000 more might break away if the plan of reunion goes through...
...passionate. Wrote one mother: "No cross given us on this earth is worse than not knowing what your baby is like." Reaction of those few adoptees who have managed to find their original parents ranged from "disillusioned" to ecstatic. The majority felt "that they had personally benefited from the reunion, no matter what the outcome was." But adoptive parents were often deeply hurt that their children, even as adults, wanted to seek out their origins. The grief and rage shown by one adoptive mother, wrote her daughter, "were the same feelings a betrayed wife might experience toward her husband...