Word: saviour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfortunate choice of metaphor, however crudely it does demonstrate how this particular comedy often goes. Certainly, the most hilarious bits (and they embrace a whole gamut of comedy) belong to Joan Tolentino, as Miss Gilchrist, a social worker who "takes insults in the name of our insulted saviour." Since she's more Mary Magdalen than Virgin Mary, she ends up having to take a good many, too--which is all to the better, since she lets go with the most wonderful shriek everytime someone in the cast tries to feel...
Saturn Engineer John J. Cully, 51, insists: "We work around here. That's all we have time for." Well, not quite. Infidelity is so common that Father Vincent Smith, pastor of the Church of Our Saviour in Cocoa Beach, wryly says that it has become a community joke. An investigator for the American Social Health Association, sent down to measure Cape Kennedy's incidence of prostitution, quickly abandoned his search. Professionals were unnecessary, explained a succession of bartenders and bellhops, because of the numerous eager amateurs, among them single girls and divorcees drawn to the secretarial ranks...
...Maryland statute provides for a maximum of six months and $100 "if any person, by writing or speaking, shall blaspheme or curse God, or shall write or utter any profane words of and concerning our Saviour Jesus Christ, or of and concerning the Trinity, or any of the persons thereof." Similar statutes exist in half the states in the U.S. Most of them can be traced back to England and the 17th century, when penalties were harsh. In an early Maryland version of the law, first offenders had a hole bored through their tongues with a hot iron, second-timers...
Thus might Johann Sebastian Bach and his family have celebrated Christmas nearly 250 years ago. In its joyous expression of a faith that was as natural as breath, that scene seems to be more than a millennium away from 1968, when the season celebrating the Saviour's birth is a time of commercial convulsion. Even many of those yearning for piety find Jesus elusive, a shadowy problematical name in history rather than a symbol of ultimate reassurance. Seen through the scrim of contemporary anxiety and unbelief, everything about the Bach-family Christmas seems to be a quaint anomaly...
...Flanders (Burton), a footloose maker of poems and mobiles who has been on hand for the demise of so many members of the jet set that he has earned the sobriquet "Angel of Death." In Williams' play, Chris was a handsome young man freighted with a load of Saviour symbolism. The Christ aspect has been mercifully muted in the movie, but there is still plenty of mystical mystification in the role. It seems that his vocation-conferred on him by a holy man in Baja California-is to help people ease their way into death, and Flora, hemorrhaging into...