Word: unshriven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agencies which cement the Church's life: Sunday schools, relief societies, mutual improvement associations for young people, a primary association for moppets, a genealogical society. Important to the Church is the last, through which good Mormons may seek data on their ancestors. By Mormon tenet, one's unshriven forebears may be admitted to Mormonism retroactively and posthumously, baptized by proxy...
...harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon as he heard that Within the Gates had taken to the road...