Word: savanarola
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...works of Ralph Nader and John Gardner would be chanted aloud at Evensong in the Savanarola Chapel of Memorial Church...
...intends to be, and at times he is successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz or Roaul Walsh was crude, aiming for direct actions which are emotionally arousing but possess a sort of integrity: they don't score moral points. At one moment, a Teutonic Savanarola is thrown onto a witch's pyre of his own fashion, but there is no audience gratification-this though the priest, aside from the town merchant, is the film's leading villain. The motivations are too involved, and the action itself is one which goes beyond personal conflict...
...actions with a threat to the nation's welfare, and he could be cruel to opponents. He thought in moral, not social, terms. Too often, while the unrest loosed by the very revolution he had set loose seethed around him. Chiang exhorted and scolded his people like a Savanarola, when the times called for vigorous social reforms...
Evangelist Carlyle B. Hayes may never live in the category of the major saints. Neither does Savanarola, his predecessor, the famed religious man of Florence. Yet both have done their duty to a certain conception of right. Each has piled the vanities and conceits of his time upon the flames, and prayed...
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