Word: vocationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless the incredible elements in the film are at least partly redeemed by a number of touches that have the ring of reality and pathos--Marcelino, the orphan, brilliantly played by Pablito Calvo stealing bread from the kitchen, or playing with an imaginary friend, or the monks' touching ineptness with...
A poet who goes in for grimmer kicks than limericks is the hero of another Music story-The Cool, Cool Bards. Kenneth Rexroth has started an unshaven love affair between verse and jazz, and it is proliferating like a weird crop of mushrooms throughout San Francisco jazz joints. Mushiest of...
I read your cryptic but perceptive Oct. 28 review of Monica Baldwin's The Called and the Chosen. I would like to express a few deep-rooted convictions on these notorious "ex-nuns" and "ex-priests" who, through some psychological guilt complex, delight in tearing to shreds the consecrated...
Any Monday morning, until the freeze sets in, nurses at the windows of Helsinki's handsome, modern Children's Clinic can see a pint-sized (under 5 ft.), boyish-looking man step briskly up the drive with a 10- or 15-lb. pike slung over his shoulder. The...
Who Failed? Not unnaturally, Sister Ursula develops painful twinges of doubt as to whether or not she has a religious vocation. She plunges from her novitiate into professed nunhood in a "gambler's spirit." uttering a pathetic, near-blasphemous prayer: "O God−if there is a God−...