Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student preference, which dictated the Veterans Theater Workshop's recent production of "Saint Joan," again was a decisive factor last week as the group chose Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I" for next fall's presentation...
While the Radcliffe Idler rarely descends to the murky depths occasionally explored by the other local theater groups, it also seldom reaches the zenith hit by "Waiting for Lefty" and "Saint Joan" earlier this spring. Its greatest virtue is consistent competence: its greatest defect, the same. This competence was constantly evident last night, in the performances, in the direction, in the excellent setting, and in the special incidental music, but it was not quite enough to make a somewhat padded play always interesting...
...such theatrics are now only for Señorita Bombal's bag of situations, to be woven into her quaint, syrupy prose. For three years she has been married to distinguished, white-haired French Broker Fal de Saint Phalle. With daughter Brigette, 2, they live happily in Manhattan...
...substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. . .), an Arian heckler interrupted to protest. Old Anthony was puzzled. He did not understand the controversy very well, but he knew what he knew. Before a crowd tense with suppressed rationalism and electrified by his majestic presence, the saint arose...
...example, T. S. Eliot. And the direct experience of God is still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share their discovery. Dostoevsky and St. Teresa bear witness to identical ecstasies. The visions of many a saint are echoed in these words by the late flyer Saint-Exupéry, who alone above the clouds found himself "enclosed as in the precincts of a temple," where, "by the grace of an ordeal ... which stripped you of all that was not intrinsic, you discovered a mysterious creature born...