Word: soule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Father Grégoire Lemercier, prior of St. Mary of the Resurrection monastery near Cuernavaca, Mexico, believes that psychoanalysis is good for the soul-especially the soul of the monk. Convinced that too many men enter the cloister out of fear of the world or from a sense of sexual inadequacy, Benedictine Lemercier five years ago encouraged the monks and postulants at St. Mary's to undertake group-therapy sessions. As a result, 40 of them decided that they did not have a true vocation and left, but Lemercier is sure that St. Mary's is the better...
...hours is probably a compromise between care and the exigencies of ordinary life, but the people and events in the movie are the proper kind: they are evil. By looking at depraved people we are supposed to learn of the dark cavities of the human soul. The wisdom that Andy Warhol has gleaned from the gutters, rooms, and public lavatories of New York is delivered over to us in the movie...
...cameras roll. If the actor moves and the camera catches only a bit of his head and lots of the bathroom behind him, it's all right: it's all good stuff. A director can afford a certain nonchalance when he's working in the unexplored regions of the soul...
...still a felony or a misdemeanor in nine states, though the laws are rarely enforced. Even the Roman Catholic Church has modified its position. It is not unusual these days to give a suicide a proper Roman Catholic funeral and a consecrated grave, on the ground "that his demented soul did not possess sufficient freedom of will for his heinous deed to constitute a mortal...
...been following the Illinois campaign since the day Charles Percy announced his intention to run. In Boston, Correspondent Dave Greenway, collaborating with Bureau Chief Ruth Mehrtens, topped off the close coverage of the campaign by tucking napkin under chin and sharing Edward Brooke's night-be-fore-election "soul food" dinner of pigs' feet and Moet et Chandon champagne. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, who lives a scant two miles from Ronald Reagan and had followed the candidate's progress for 18 months, did not remember any champagne. "It added up to uncounted cold cups...