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While the participants in this witches' Sabbath are busy at its quieter passages, they make rather a good thing of it. The fustily ornate interiors of the mansion, with their finely caught gloom even in bright daylight, are exciting without help from anyone. Yet Dark Waters fails because its story, its characters and its scarey ideas seldom get beyond the blueprint stage. In this kind of melodrama, which depends strongly on atmosphere and psychological overtones, absolute belief is indispensable. Sample oversight: the failure effectively to suggest the peculiarly oppressive, damp heat of the locale...
...drugstore in a small Iowa town. He is scarcely able to endure the attempts of his wife (Frances Dee) to comfort him. But one Sunday morning the ghost of his grandfather (Harry Carey) materializes, wearing his G.A.R. hat. He takes the father on a leisurely saunter through the Sabbath silence of the town, and through his memories...
Every Sunday Rabbi Mann packs the temple (the first reform congregation organized in the U.S.). Sinai has had Sunday services for 69 years (orthodox synagogues hold services on Saturday - the Jewish Sabbath). He lets men and women sit together, does not require them to sit facing east. He baits them in his sermons, to make them think. "My job," he says, "isn't just to use a vocabulary. I have to get a thrust in now & then. Religion can't be taught. It has to be caught. And it must be caught from someone who is on fire...
...rith Kodesh in Rochester. There he gradually edged his ultra-Reformed congregation back towards traditional Judaism, increased the ratio of Hebrew to English in the services, this year substituted services on Friday night (the age-old time that Jews have gone to their synagogues to greet the Sabbath) for his temple's long-established Sunday morning observances...
...that the march through Georgia and the Carolinas was of little military use. Except for Grant, U.S. military leaders have not had enough appreciation of the importance of speed, and lost many a golden opportunity by dawdling. Most horrible example: the pious Jackson, who stopped for devotions on the Sabbath...