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...healthy Irish immigrant girl to bear his child. The result is Stephen Henley, raised in an expensive, loveless manner. Instead of following Edward's sybaritic path, Stephen becomes a Unitarian minister and a classics scholar. He marries Lucy Roundtree Evans, a widow who has spent her sexual pas sion on her first husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Comforts | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...around each other," says Anastos. "So why not do a chain where someone gets stuck right in the middle and can't get out?" In the dazzling finale of the Corsaire pas de deux, Bassae/Karpova completes all the pirouettes and whipping one-leg turns in the traditional ver sion, then hurls his chunky body through the air and alights on his partner's shoulder in the classic manner. Most of the Trock dancers take class daily, some, like Antony Bassae who has performed male roles with German opera ballets, have conventional training and experience. Taylor studied with both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Faux Pas | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...porkpie hat, a regular good-will ambassador from New York's finest. "I'd rather be a lamp post in New York than the President of France," he snarls at his Gallic counterpart (Bernard Fresson), who is supposed to cooperate with Doyle's mis sion: to run Frog One to ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leap Frog | 6/2/1975 | See Source »

Sister Marie Despina, 55, a scholarly Notre Dame de Sion* nun whose doctoral research on the subject provided considerable material for the A.J.C. report, says that Spain is by far the worst offender. There the legend of Domingo del Val, a choirboy allegedly crucified in the 13th century by Jews who hated his hymn singing, is still fresh. Sister Despina says that the chorister-patron saint of Spanish choirboys-never existed, and that the first documented reference to him dates only from 1587. Yet the cathedral of Zaragoza, she notes, has a brightly lit chapel to the young saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Legacy of Hate | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...developing countries. The covenant noted that "a reduction of for eign missionaries and money in an evan gelized country may sometimes be necessary to facilitate the national church's growth in self-reliance." Meanwhile, Third World churches, in areas that are still mission territory, now have 200 mis sion boards of their own and are sending 3,400 missionaries to other lands - mostly to neighboring countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Challenge from Evangelicals | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

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