Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chaplain. The chaplain (Protestant, Catholic or Jewish, according to the couple's request) asks every possible pertinent question. How did they meet? Any previous marriages or children? How much sex experience does each have? How much education? How do their families feel about it? How do they view the responsibilities of marriage? If the chaplain approves, he advises the airman's unit commander whether the marriage should be permitted, delayed or discouraged (and few British parsons or registrars will marry them without the commanding officer's certificate of approval...
...death or before it. Some, like Father John P. O'Connell. editor of the Catholic Family Bible, think that death is the result of original sin and that, since Mary was free from original sin (the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception), she was not subject to death. Another view, advanced by the Rev. William G. Most of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, holds that Mary died of the love of God. "Such a love is like a magnet," he said, "so powerful that it exerts a powerful desire to be with God, causing the soul to leave the body...
...talking about the mystery of life after death, subject of a new London Sunday Times series (among future contributors: Bertrand Russell, the Aga Khan). Already noted as a translator of Dante and an able amateur theologian, Anglican Author Sayers gave a cogent and striking version of one Christian view of the afterlife...
...years. At the end of a performance the conductor or guest soloist will shake his hand; if the guest happens to be someone as impulsive as Leonard Bernstein, he may even kiss his cheeks. For the rest, the concertmaster's job is done out of the public view, preparing the violins for the effects the conductor wants, marking the bowings, in general setting the tone of the orchestra...
...since the play is calculated to mean exactly what each member of the audience wants it to mean. At the risk of contradicting the author, I suggest that his statement is not quite accurate, because if the play makes no definite point, it at least embodies a point of view. While a follower of Joyce as far as style is concerned, apparently Beckett is an existentialist by belief. Whatever else he may be doing, the playwright very successfully projects the existentialist disgust with the absurdity, the pointlessness of life. In Vladimir and Estragon he presents two symbols of humanity bravely...