Word: vows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with clowns and cavortings, he leaves the Ex dark for at least ten minutes, forcing the audience to concentrate as four disembodied voices exhaustively lay out the play's premise. The King of Navarre (Alex Pearson) has persuaded his three friends. Dumanine, Longaville, and Berowne, to join in a vow to study for three years-fasting, rarely sleeping, and forswearing the company of women. They all swear, despite misgivings, quite forgetting that the Princess of France is arriving that day on an embassy from her father, bringing three ladies...
Once you have this straight, the rest of the plot is traditional. The four lords fall for the four ladies. attempt to dissemble, then to break their vows, and are eventually taught by the ladies to sue for favor honestly, without resorting to trivial games. The transition to reality and perhaps maturity is completed by the unexpected news of the Princess' father's death, and all eight principals soberly vow faith and various types of atonement, as if ceremoniously renouncing the comic-traditional world that has held them in thrall...
...following story), another non-Arab country, Iran, had invaded Arab territory and seemed, moreover, to have a better-than-even chance of unseating the ruling government. At immediate risk were the moderate, hereditary regimes of Saudi Arabia and the rest of the gulf. But the Ayatullah Khomeini's vow was even more explosive: to press on to Jerusalem, to liberate the Holy City and overwhelm all enemies of Islam...
...trouble with all this worldly success is that its recipient, Father Andrew M. (for Moran) Greeley, 54, is a Roman Catholic priest. It is not so much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that...
There is a restlessness about Moyers' career, a sense of peaks unsealed but longed for. Is it the political urge, which has tempted him several times? Moyers denies it: "I have taken the vow. When I finish all this, I hope to go teach." But he knows that people can get confused by his various styles of commentary-as advocate (Alaska pipeline story), as impressionistic reporter (Poland, El Salvador), or doing "straight-into-the-camera essays," sometimes punctuated by pictures...