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LOGOS: "He positions me in a nondecisional situation. He maximizes my adjustment . . ." (As the student wakes up): I'm the Reverend Mr. Logos. Bless...
Hawaii purports to be a saga of the ruin of a perfect, if primitive, society at the hands of imperialistic religious zealots, come from New England to bring Christianity to the heathens. The script focuses on Abner Hale (Max von Sydow), a dense Bible-thumping Reverend who blunders proudly into the Hawaiian islands with his wife Jerusha (Julie Andrews) and, in the course of a generation, corrupts the island he has come to save, wearing out his wife in the process.Hawaii, then, has pretensions toward huge themes: the conflict between love of God and love of women, the problem...
...Daniel Taradash and Dalton Trumbo's script manages to establish any characterization at all, it does so by repetition rather than incisive writing. The Reverend Hale, played Swedishly by von Sydow, is so unswervingly dogmatic about his job that he soon exhausts the audience, which watches his predictable life-story with bovine good nature, groaning "Oh no, not again!" at his every line. Julie Andrews stoically survives the pangs of sexual frustration, the pain of childbirth, and the ravages of time, until the make-up department decides she can't take any more, at which point she is allowed...
Married. Anne Graham, 18, daughter of Evangelist Billy Graham; and Dr. Daniel Lotz, 29, dentist son of a Baptist minister; with both reverend fathers officiating; in Montreal...
...Adams proved himself far from immutable. He agreed to have his original 55-page platform scrapped, and work was begun on a more radical one. His denunciations of the war became more pointed; he affiliated himself with Reverend Wood in the latter's dispute with Mrs. Hicks; he issued, indirectly, a powerful statement before a meeting of the Mothers for Adequate Welfare in Boston...