Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people kissed (cheek to social cheek) who had never kissed before. As everyone knows-if reminded-Christmas Day itself marks the birth of Christ. But it is sometimes hard to remember in the weeks before. Instead, the chief big man seems to be that fellow Santa Claus, the patron saint of giving. Pillowed and pastyfaced, he chortles from a myriad of department-store thrones, and pasteboard likenesses beam from drugstore windows. Under his spell, the battle cry in thousands of U.S. homes becomes...
...left a performance of Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun, I tried to recall the last drama of such stature to come from a British pen. Anything on Pinter, Osborne, Fry, Eliot? No. Then I realized that Royal Hunt is the finest British play since Shaws Saint Joan burst on the boards four decades...
...Like Saint Joan, it is a play about Catholicism and heresy, among other things. Could it be that the theme of religious faith inspired him to outdo himself? It is undeniable that, over the years, this theme has stimulated playwrights to remarkable and frequently their best work-from Prometheus Bound, Antigone and The Bacchae through Tartuffe, Athalie, Faust and Brand to Easter, Partage de Midi, Murder in the Cathedral, Galileo, Billy Budd, A Sleep of Prisoners, and Waiting for Godot...
This was the first test for Leverett's famed defense. Two smashes into the line left, Winthrop with a third-and-seven situation on the Leverett 14. On the next play, a saint off tackle, the Puritan halfback fumed and Leverett players swarmed over the ball ending Winthrop's threat...
...Irish maintain that their own Saint Brendan the Navigator got here 300 years before Columbus. And though Jewish organizations did not enter the scramble last week, Pennsylvania State Representative Herbert Fineman solemnly averred that Ericsson's trusty navigator was named Eric Mandelbaum. Peking was strangely silent considering the Red brag that a band of Chinese monks traveled from the Aleutians to Mexico back...