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...priest nor a layman. He may not celebrate Mass or hear confessions, but he may officiate at baptisms, marriages and funerals, as well as preach. What is more, he can be a married man, provided he has married before becoming a deacon. Unmarried deacons must, like priests, take a vow of celibacy; all deacons make a promise of obedience to their bishops...
...over the past 100 years. Greater and lesser men and women have written for its pages, conducted its business and forged its image. Throughout, the underlying principles of The Crimson have not yielded to time or pressure. As The Crimson enters its second century, editors past and present can vow to ensure that these principles are preserved at 14 Plympton Street...
...degradation of a woman. The scenes in which he accomplishes this with Jeanne-who is excited, intrigued and masochistic enough to go along-are what might be called the hard core of the film. In one, he asks her to insert her fingers in his anus, then exacts a vow from her that she would prove her devotion to him by, among other things, having relations with a pig. In another, the culmination of the subjugation process, he wrestles her to a prone position on the floor and sodomizes her while forcing her to recite a litany rejecting love, family...
...narrow sense at least he would have kept that vow. Whatever happened to Thieu and to the makeup of the Saigon government-the complexities of Vietnamese life after so many years of war are such that few foresee any sudden Communist "takeover"-the Administration could argue that it had "imposed" nothing on the country, that it was all "up to the Vietnamese themselves...
This is fine. But it is a little hard to accept his vow of non-involvement. This was Tuesday's dialogue...