Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extreme penalty-excommunication from the local church-often amounted to political exile. In 1640, Sister Temperance Sweet was cast out of the First Church of Boston for giving "entertainment to disorderly Company & ministering unto ym wine & strong waters even unto Drunkenesse & yt not wth out some iniquity both in ye measure & pryce thereof." In 1681, however, Sister Cleaves of Roxbury got off with a public admonition, although she had "corrupted Mr. Lamb's neger" so that "in a discontent" he had set two houses afire...
...Thou shalt not covet thy lay sister's, or fellow minister's house, furniture, car, or whatsoever thy sister may have...
...host to the convention, Mayor Jordan took members to nearby Glendale, where members played on the 36-bell carillon of the Episcopal Sisters of the Transfiguration. His proudest moment came when his pupil, Sister Ruth Magdalene, a onetime missionary in China who has studied for only a year, put on the leather guards, pulled up her skirts a bit so that her feet could be freer for the heavy pedals, and rang out a pair of selections. Sister Ruth Magdalene was promptly voted into the guild...
Carrie (Paramount) brings Theodore Dreiser's massive, muddy, turn-of-the-century novel, Sister Carrie, to the screen for the first time* in a polished, rather tidied-up movie version. The film is generally faithful to Dreiser's story about Carrie Meeber (Jennifer Jones), an innocent farm girl who comes to Chicago in 1898 and gets involved with two men: Charles Drouet (Eddie Albert), a good-natured traveling salesman with whom she lives, and George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier), a prosperous restaurant manager who gives up family and career for her, and ends up a bum and a suicide...
...process of being translated to the screen, Carrie has lost not only the Sister from its title, but also some of its biting naturalism and sociological compassion. Hurstwood's suicide is only suggested in the film. Gone entirely is the harrowing trolley-car strike in which the down & out Hurstwood worked as a strikebreaking conductor; and almost all the flophouse and begging sequences have been deleted. Dreiser set off his small people with large philosophizing about the moral hypocrisy of the times, but the movie is mostly just about small people. Although it hews to Dreiser's somber...