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...Third Lover. Claude Chabrol has made a chilling psychological thriller about the sin of envy. Jacques Charrier is the baby-faced rat who wrecks a marriage and causes a murder because others' happiness makes him angry...
...wopsical hats. It is more a costume ball than a play, and it stresses what is sheen-deep in Molière's wit rather than what is skinflinty. Still, in a glancing way, the master French comic moralist's point does get made-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Mock-Hero Harpagon (Hume Cronyn) is dead to his children's hope of love, dead to his servants' grievances, dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well lost for money. Skittering about like a drunken sandpiper, Hume...
...Sin of Father Amara, by Eça de Queiroz. Published in 1874 but now available in the U.S. for the first time, this early novel by Portugal's greatest writer of prose is a chilling and corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s...
...TEACH THAT "SPIRITUAL UNITY" IS ENOUGH. "Let people think that the essential unity of the church is quite unimpaired by denominational distinctions, disputes over sacraments and ministry, doctrine, liturgy, polity, or race. All talk about the sin and scandal of division can thus be discredited...
...Sin of Father Amaro, by Eca de Queiroz. Published in 1874 but now available in the U.S. for the first time, this early novel by Portugal's greatest writer of prose is a chilling and corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s...