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Judging from a nationwide sampling of this week's sermons, the U.S. clergy held with firmness to traditional Christian (and Jewish and Mohammedan) principles on this point. The news from Elugelab did not set off a wave of pacifist sentimentality. A passage in a sermon by Dr. Louie De Votie Newton, pastor of Atlanta's Druid Hills Baptist Church, was typical of the main strain of comment on the H-bomb. Said Dr. Newton...
...early afternoon on Palm Sunday, Harvard Square was flooded with faithful churchgoers coming from services, folded bulletins and dried palms in hand. At just about the same time in Sever 113, a small audience gathered before Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 to hear a different sort of sermon. As he began his keynote address for the “F-Word” conference, a student-run event that sought to explore, complicate, and validate an f-word—feminism—McCarthy reflected on the occasion. “I was raised in a Catholic home...
...fictional. But the film’s fantasy world never draws the audience in because Chester never commits to the fantasy’s efficacy. Every public display of homosexual affection is accompanied by a barrage of beer bottles from a New Jersey hick or a self-conscious sermon about New York’s gay-bashing epidemic...
...Hood’s vision or to its own African backgrounds. More often than rousing speeches (which could lose their effect on American audiences since the movie is in subtitles), silence and poignant facial expressions dominate the majority of the film. Hood’s actors pantomime his sermon of love for humanity and his hope for the alleviation of its suffering. Bottom Line: The juxtaposition of violence and beauty, of blatant subtlety and masked naivety, elevate the simple story line of Gavin Hood’s “Tsotsi” to an Oscar-winning, emotionally...
...church] was like basketball was for some kids,” Gomes says, looking the part of Pusey Minister in his book-lined, wood-paneled office in Memorial Church. As a young man, he was a kind of know-it-all, he says, with a memory for Biblical passages, sermons, and wisecracks.As a student at Bates, though, he did not envision himself as a minister. In fact, the Massachusetts native son fancied himself the future director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. He dutifully practiced the organ, but at that point, he definitely wasn?...