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...Saturday Night Live's most valuable contribution to the movies, plays a woman reduced to instant penury when her husband abandons her and raids all their bank accounts before informing her of his desertion-by leaving a message on her answering machine. Then there is Susan Saint James, trying to raise the children on a too-small alimony check. She wants to marry an agreeable fellow who is also broke. Too discreet to sleep together in her bedroom, where the children might discover them, and too poor to hire a motel room, they must cohabit in her station wagon...
Moye made his Boston debut this April in Jordan Hall, playing Saint-Saens' celebrated A-minor concerto at the season's final event offered by Concerts in Black and White, where Black conductor Wendell English leads the multiracial orchestra. The concert was the best by the orchestra this year. And Moye's performance was impeccably elegant--an impression confirmed when WGBH broadcast a tape of the program the next month. Regrettably, none of the Boston newspapers reviewed the event, but a musical genius like Moye ought to be brought back soon--by someone...
...present about 1,000 men and women are being considered for eventual canonization, including nine Americans who are awaiting beatification. There are now more than 2,500 saints, venerated because it is believed that their heroic Christianity and the example of their lives and deaths are worthy of emulation, and because they are believed to be able to intercede with God to work miracles in response to prayer. Many saints were created during the centuries when Christians were persecuted by Rome, a time when all martyrs were considered saints-along with the Apostles and early church fathers like St. Augustine...
...recent years, too, the Vatican has been re-examining its lists of saints, removing many names from the calendar of saints' days observed during the liturgical year. Some were dropped because of doubts that they ever existed, among them such favorites as St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers, and St. Valentine. The new calendar issued a decade ago includes only 58 saints important to Catholics the world over. Others are "optional," on the basis of local loyalties. Says a Vatican official: "St. Patrick is fine in Ireland but holds little interest for the Cambodians...
...express more than mere temperament; they reveal a whole epoch. The fifth volume of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's confidential writings starts with the dawn of war in Europe, "like the morning after a death," and continues to another death, that of the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "I am sad," she notes, "that he never forgave us for our stand...