Word: sabbaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stem from deep roots in both its Anglo-Saxon and French traditions-traditions whose offshoots have blossomed into some unlovely flowers of puritanism and respectability. Canada's divorce laws are harsh. The Canadian Lord's Day Act is a Sunday-observance law that makes Canada on a Sabbath day the dullest place in the world. The liquor laws are repressive...
...Danger of Churchgoing. Then religion is a staff and a rod: "As I came away from the Evening Service, walking home from that Sabbath adventure, some neighbours of mine met and passed me in their motor, laughing. Were they laughing at me? I wondered uneasily; and as I sauntered across the fields I vaguely cursed those misbelievers. Yes, yes, their eyes should be darkened, and their mocking lips put to silence. They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed...
...women) will spend a good deal of time answering questions. During the war, W.I.B.'s New York office answered an average of 50 telephone and mail queries a day. Typical questions: Has Halifax a good private school? What provinces can an ice carnival play in on the Sabbath? "Dear Sirs: Please send all possable infermeation as I need the infermeation for school thank...
Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...
Mordecai Kaplan, always an unorthodox thinker, began outraging Jewish fundamentalists a decade ago by launching the "reconstructionist" movement to liberalize Hebrew doctrine. The issue last week was a newly published Sabbath...