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Bettger plays the father of unwed Barbara Stanwyck's unborn child. He brushes her off with a $5 bill and a one-way ticket home. She escapes death in a train wreck, assumes the identity of a dead fellow traveler, a pregnant mother on the way to live with in-laws who have never seen her. The trusting in-laws (Jane Cowl and Henry O'Neill) take Barbara and her baby to their bosom. Their son (John Lund)-the brother of Barbara's supposed husband, who died in the wreck-suspects her deception but falls too hard...
...into the water, shouting: "O Goddess Ganges, holiest of rivers, lead me to salvation!" Children screamed as they were dragged into the icy water. Barren couples bathed hand-in-hand, hoping the holy water would make them fertile. Pregnant women came seeking the blessing of the Ganges for their unborn babies; 28 of the babies were born during the festival...
...opinions upon the peculiar habits of Christian society; why, then, had the outside world taken exception to his own tribe's age-old customs? In his capacity as King of all Kom Villages, Rainmaker, Custodian of the Tribal Lands and Link between the Dead, the Living and the Unborn, it was his job to see that tradition was preserved...
Morton, however, is very successful in his defense of the contemplative vocation and in his scorn for the modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...
Culture, Eliot holds, can be passed on by men primarily through their children, because only through the family can people grasp another important element of culture-"Piety towards the dead, however obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote." So, in Eliot's opinion, if an "elite" does not become a rooted upper class, it cannot have any real cultural value; to enemies of aristocracy Eliot says that though in a class system many aristocrats fail to live up to their ancestors' high calling, a precious handful may be relied upon to fulfill the obligations of their...