Word: saviours
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...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...
...intense they can be frank about it. Their expressiveness crystalizes their feeling for each other into a religion. They may not be wise about preserving themselves in the world, they may be young, but their creed is unshakable. Each is a disciple in his own eyes, a saviour in the eyes of the beloved...
...Airborne Christian Church, which was composed of soldiers from several faiths who organized in small groups, conducted their own prayer services even in the midst of the battle. The war over, Cosby borrowed money from friends to buy a dilapidated Washington rooming house that was the Church of the Saviour's first quarters; since 1950, the church's worship center has been a stately red brick Victorian mansion on Massachusetts Avenue...
...general secretariat for ecumenical and interreligious affairs. As evidence that the spirit of unity is reciprocal, the brand-new Lutheran Council in the U.S. -a service agency that is supported by churches that represent 95% of the nation's Lutherans-sent "cordial greetings in the name of Our Saviour" to the Washington meeting...
...hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor during a visit to SAC headquarters. The fans also got a sizable helping of bloopers. "For more than 2,000 years," Hedda once intoned reverently, "Jews and Christians all over the world have tried to follow in the footsteps of our Saviour...