Word: reverend
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Peninsula's most recent issue dealing with homosexuality has generated numerous responses and reactions. While I find the great majority of these criticisms to be unjust, I wish to reply to only one--that of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes...
...Foreigner is the story of a small Georgian community which is suddenly electrified by the arrival of a "foreigner." The audience meets Betty Meeks (Jeanne Simpson), proprietor of the fishing lodge in which the action takes place; the Reverend David Lee (Richard Claflin) and his fiance Catherine Simms (Bina Martin); Catherine's exuberant but uneducated brother, Ellard (Ian Lithgow); Ku Klux Klan member Owen Musser (Glenn Kessler); and military man Forggy Leseur (J.C Wolfgang Murad), who brings the painfully shy Charlie Baker (Tom Hughes) to Tilghman County and suggests that in order to avoid conversation he pretend...
Claflin destroys the audience's saccharine vision of the good southern Reverend. He gives a delightfully sinister performance, as does Kessler...
...resent the Crimson's ill-aimed focus on irrelevant details of salient public awareness functions(e.g., the poorly-quoted, off subject remarks made by CommUNITY picnic '90 speaker Reverend Stith), rather than an emphasis on the goals of the events and the productive dialogues which are created...
After all, that's why we still sing "Fair Harvard" despite its references to the Puritans. But it seems that there is a difference between these reminders of our sectarian past and the Reverend Gomes's prayer, which extended that tradition beyond appropriate boundaries...