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...access to one's soul. Dressed in an array of African prints the Kuumba singers rocked and swayed, clapped and sang until Memorial Church seemed to move with their rhythm. With shining faces and full voices the choir dramatically presented its theme, "The Light of Unity." The Memorial Church altar, usually an inconspicuous backdrop, complemented the singers' radiant stage presence; it almost seemed to draw out their contagious rhythm and spirit...
There are definite problems with this approach. For one thing, Morphos must sacrifice some suspense on the altar of comic effect, and as a result, the final revelations lose part of their force. In addition, her emphasis curtails the range of emotions implicit in the script, since characters as different as the cynical Mr. Paravicini and the pathetic would-be architect Christopher Wren emerge in this production as similarly successful comic types. Sometimes laughter intrudes where it shouldn't; for example, Wren's paranoid outburst in the second act ("You're all against me, everyone's always been against...
...feeling that "wells up from a deeper level of the psyche." As for man's relationship to that sacred force, Toynbee once used a metaphor from his own dreams. In this dream, he said, he had seen himself holding onto the foot of the crucifix high above the altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Then he heard a voice call out in flawless Latin: "Amplexus expecta "-Cling and wait...
...would (banners wave in St. Peter's Square, where the ceremony was scheduled to be held. Still, the more than 50,000 onlookers in the square would witness a mighty spectacle as the white-robed Pope proceeded from St. Peter's to a specially constructed outdoor altar. Behind it, a huge tapestry depicted Mother Seton looking down from heaven on North America...
Other patients have rushed to the altar, returned to heavy drinking or started gambling wildly. One Manhattan analyst recalls that over the years, three of his patients have unexpectedly become pregnant in August. Admits the doctor: "I am the fantasy father of all three...