Word: sorin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chekhov's narrative is meticulously simple, containing, as he put it, "much talk of literature, little action, and five poods* of love." Director Sidney Lumet, who hammered home The Pawnbroker, pummels away at Chekhov's plot. At the country estate of a retired civil servant named Sorin (Harry Andrews) is assembled a group of people who over the course of two years will quietly destroy one another: Sorin's sister Arkadina (Simone Signoret), an aging actress vacationing in the country with her lover Trigorin (James Mason), a successful author; Arkadina's son Konstantin (David Warner...
Peter Weil as Sorin, and John Ross as Dorn created distinct characters; Johanna Madden, as Masha, created a superb one. All three maintained the tone and pace of the production perfectly, in their individual scenes...
...Home in Indiana. Notre Dame got its start when the French-born Father Stephen Badin, first Catholic priest ordained in the U.S., bought several hundred acres around his Indiana log cabin, deeded it to the nearest bishop for a school. In 1842 the C.S.C. in France sent Father Edward Sorin, 28, to build the school. His endowment: an oxcart, seven religious helpers and $541.12½. Bewitched by a fresh November snow, Sorin had a vision of purity that made him call the place Notre Dame (Our Lady...
After 37 hard years, Sorin's proud achievement was a tightly disciplined college, modeled on a French boarding school. Then the place burned to the ground. Sorin concluded that the Mother of God had "to show me that my vision was too narrow." In four months flat, Sorin and the faculty raised the huge main building that still stands, topped with the golden dome that is Notre Dame's landmark. The school pushed on with its work, for many years under the Rev. William Corby, whose campus statue has long tagged him as "Fair Catch" Corby...