Word: zealots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief monster woman, Dede Cooper (Estelle Parsons), is a pioneer zealot of regional theater, and she has nursed the Alamo into its present quarters, a huge Gothic pile. Dede can squash mountains as though they were bugs, but she has a doughty foe in a widowed moneybags named Joanne Remington (Rosemary Murphy), who believes that when money talks, Dede should shut up. Joanne's plan is to install a codirector, Shirley Fuller (Jan Farrand), who will siphon off Dede's authority...
Public Burnings. Those who converted were designated "New Christians," but they continued to be hounded for 2½ centuries by the Inquisition, installed in 1536, and by zealot neighbors. In one Lisbon riot alone, in 1506, between 2,000 and 4,000 of the New Christians were slaughtered. The auto-da-fe-the parade and ritual sentencing of Jews and heretics, sometimes followed by spectacular public burnings -was not abolished in Lisbon until...
...Prodigal Son parable not while debating with scribes and Pharisees but while he is scandalizing the Jewish folk by eating at the house of Matthew the tax collector, and he uses the story to reconcile Matthew with Peter (James Farentino). Some scenes, like Jesus' debate with the Zealot Barabbas about political violence, are not in the Bible at all but are faithful to Jesus' teachings...
...eight, Darwin muttered to his father, who was playing in a sedate foursome, "let us beat those beasts." He remained a partisan zealot the rest of his life. In 1929 the British ladies champion Joyce Wethered was five down in a match to her American counterpart, Glenna Collet. Before she sunk a putt that proved the turning point in the contest and enabled her to go on to victory, Miss Wethered noticed Darwin in the gallery and recalls that "his face wore an expression that was a mixture of fury and dejection." Darwin took no solace in the notion that...
...then that of these recordings only the Schubert has ever been released before? Originally the entire project was considered a total loss. According to Producer John Pfeiffer, the masters were damaged because some zealot scrubbed the original metal molds with a wire brush. His apparent purpose was to eliminate discoloration in the metal. What he accomplished was the scarring of the record grooves. For this release, the original recordings were converted to tape, then edited (snipping out offensive clicks and pops took hundreds of hours). Though some of the old surface noise is still to be heard, it is tolerable...