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Maugham clearly believed in what he belabored-so clearly that The Sacred Flame comes off much less problem than sermon. There must, after all, be two sides to any really dramatic problem play. This one is not only too one-sided, but is so unheated by life and emotion that Maugham had to keep it going as a rather pallid murder mystery...
...columns carried the authentic flavor of the combat infantryman's lonely world of fear and waiting: "Aside from the patrols and the small attacks, it's a constant vigil . . . Time drags when you sit and wait for something to happen." Reed's account of an Easter sermon, preached at a clearing leveled by a bulldozer the day before: "The chaplain . . . said that men, in these uncertain times, are seeking security . . . He said there is no better security than belief in the story he had just finished telling ... I left the service feeling that, in a time...
...picture opens with young Francis and his twelve disciples returning to Umbria in 1209 after receiving the Pope's blessing for their work. A succession of loosely linked episodes depicts Francis delivering his famous sermon to the birds; the tormented Francis embracing a leper in a moving, wordless scene punctuated only by the clank of the leper's warning clapper and Francis' sobs as he throws himself on the ground; zealous Friar Juniper cutting off a little pig's foot to make soup for a sick brother; Friar Juniper's selflessness triumphing over the bloody...
Book of Revelation. In Tulsa, the Rev. J. Frank Davis announced the title of his sermon for the forthcoming Sunday evening service: "Why Half the People I Know Ought to Go to Hell...
...Greatest Story Ever Told (Sun. 5:30 p.m., ABC). First of an eight-part series based on the Sermon on the Mount...