Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot stand comparison with his master, but he tries to outdo him in compassion. Greene's whisky-drinking, fornicating priest in revolution-torn Mexico could only try to make amends by persisting in God's work at the risk of his life. Father Bowles, the sinner of Michelfelder's Be Not Angry, is let off almost scot-free: since his vocation was not as strong as his male hunger for a woman, he is allowed to write off his priesthood and go with God to boot...
Decades ago Cecil B. DeMille went to Oberammergau, saw the Passion Play, and left with a vision of all the great celluloid saint-and-sinner-ramas that he hoped to produce. Last week, to attend the century's seventh production of the 300-year-old Bavarian pageant, pilgrims 'crowded into Bavaria in Peugeots, Rolls-Royces, light aircraft, bikes and buses. As the play went on and on and on, lids closed over once reverent eyes: what everyone had come to see-from seats of softest oak-was nothing less than DeMille squared, a seven-hour pseudo-Biblical presentation...
...Shakespeare never sermonizes-his "largesse universal like the sun" showers on saint and sinner, fool and sage, king and commoner. To modern playwrights, man is puny; to Shakespeare, who knew all his faults, he was nevertheless "the paragon of animals." To an Age of Anxiety, he incarnates the courage, humor and fortitude that have always seen men through their dark nights of the soul; to a burnt-out drama he is the ever-renewing fire in the ashes. Immortal, he became a myth; miraculously, he was once...
...Hollywood than in Tennessee: the long, "morally offensive" seduction scene between Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach was played without dialogue, and the playwright, therefore, "was not in the least responsible." With Douay-eyed insistence, Dakin reports: "Tennessee is really looking for God ... He is searching for pardon for the sinner in the mercy of an all-loving God ... He believes in God ... He is also aware of his blood relationship to St. Francis Xavier...
...students to deposit notes (read publicly) describing their classmates' "positive" behavior. His discipline method is a point system in which a whole class is docked for individual transgressions or rewarded for individual triumphs. It is Principal Petrov's pride that his harshest punishment is sending a sinner home in midweek. Only gross insubordination, says he, moves him to invoke...