Word: shrive
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...play to make first-night audiences shrive themselves for past sins is American Landscape. Four years of sulking in his tent have robbed the Rice who wrote The Adding Machine, Street Scene, Counsellor-at-Law of all his old cunning, power, punch. American Landscape tells of the head of an old Connecticut family (Charles Waldron), a benevolent paternalist out to sell his factory because it has been unionized. To make a clean sweep, he decides to sell his farm as well. But when he agrees to sell it to a Nazi Bund for a "recreation ground," not only his family...
...refused to let a priest shrive her before her death, for the same reason...
...Bristol, England, Mrs. Alice Shrive, 55, tradesman's wife, died again last week, thoroughly. Thirty years ago pallbearers carrying her body to a grave, stumbled, caused her to rouse and scold them roundly. Two years later, at her second wake, she sat up on the planks and scolded mourners for wailing. Thereafter she lived to have 31 operations. Neighbors were awed. Last week she died again, of cancer; and relatives, twice duped, cut two of her arteries...
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