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...adapting Melville's 500 pages into a not over-long screenplay, Huston and Ray Bradbury have done a job that is unqualifiedly brilliant. They have followed the plot and the characterizations faithfully, and have even shown a welcome respect for the spoken word--in the sermon by Father Mapple, in Ishmael's intermittent narration, and in numerous speeches by Ahab that are taken almost verbatim from the book. At the same time, realizing that the camera and the pen are by no means interchangeable storytellers, they have not hesitated to take beneficial liberties with the novel. In Peter Coffin...
...does. Each Sunday the services at St. Ebbe's, St. Aldate's, St. Mary Magdalene, Pusey House and the Wesley Memorial Church are packed with young Oxonians. Sunday evening sermons at St. Mary the Virgin, the university church, are drawing record crowds, and 200-300 mimeographed copies of a sermon are likely to be snatched up within a few hours of delivery. About one student in six is estimated to be a member of one of the denominational societies, and about 80 undergraduates are being confirmed at the university each year. Says the Rev. Roy Stuart Lee, vicar...
When '31 left to face the Depression on more serious terms, President Lowell sent the Class off with a plea for wisdom and a sense of personal responsibility. But it was a Baccalaureate sermon, and 1931 was probably more intent on other things.BEN TICKNOR '31, varsity football captain and All-American center...
...Nehru (Hindu by birth and agnostic by practice) will lay the cornerstone of a Buddhist monument in New Delhi. But India's principal celebrations will take place in four sacred places: Lumbini. where Buddha was born; Bodh Gaya, where he achieved enlightenment; Sarnath, where he preached his first sermon; Kushinara, where he died...
Mark's Church in Evanston, Ill., Used his sermon for a preconvention broadside at the diocesan leadership. "What these people want," he cried, "is the exaltation of the clerical order, the subordination of the laity, and the regimentation of the life of the church along imperialist, monarchical or oligarchical lines. In practice . . . [they] want the clergy to run the show, although by no means a majority of the clergy want any such dubious honor...