Word: reverend
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...compels thoughts of eternity. After decades of officially sponsored atheism, the Russians remain a profoundly spiritual people. To mark the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an enormous banner recently appeared on the facade of the Historical Museum in Red Square. It bore the slogan REVEREND FATHER SERGIUS, PRAY TO GOD FOR US. An outsider would see the irony in a saint occupying the spot once reserved for larger-than-life portraits of Marx and Lenin. Not a Russian. During a recent missionary crusade by U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, large crowds stood by the speaker...
Thomas Brattle, a classmate of Danforth and Richards, was one of the critics of the proceedings. The witch trials were finally brought to an end by the Reverend Increase Mather, a Harvard president...
...River Runs Through It" happily recounts the Huckleberry Finn-like childhood of Norman Maclean (played by Craig Sheffer) and his brother Paul (Brad Pitt). Their father (Tom Skerritt) is both a preacher and a fisher, sermonizing from the pulpit, the study and from the river banks. The Reverend Maclean teaches them equal respect for God's word and God's fish. As he is happy to remind his children, the apostles were all fishers - and fly fishers at that...
There is a real art to fly-fishing. The Reverend even uses a metronome to teach his children the rhythm of casting. It's an important turning point in the film when Norman notices that his brother has developed a new rhythm, independent of their father. Of course, few would notice this development without Redford's narration...
...meaning of A River Runs Through It is somewhere just beneath the surface, like a fish waiting to be caught. My grandfather was a fisherman and I admired him much the same way that Norman and Paul admire the Reverend Maclean. But I never really understood the lure of fishing and though I watched my grandfather attentively, I never learned anything. Without that knowledge of how a fish thinks, I don't think I could ever really comprehend "A River Runs Through It," at least not without the help of Maclean's prose. Redford's illustrations are incredibly beautiful...