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Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell...
Miscue. In Omaha, Detective Inspector F. Franks secured a confession from a woman who had passed a worthless check that she had signed F. Franks.
Crime and Punishment (adapted from Dostoevsky's novel by Rodney Ackland; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) is perhaps too great a novel to be tampered with. But by the same token it would seem able to withstand a lot of tampering. Dostoevsky's great study of crime...
Andrew bought it. From that time on he was lost and godless in the eyes of Bishop John Helmuth and the others. In accordance with the 17th article of the Amish doctrine, the Dordrecht Confession of Faith,* the Mennonite "mite" or "shun" was placed against him. It declares: ". . . we believe...
The heroine of Therese is mired in a tight bourgeois world of money, damp country houses and spiritual smugness. Bored with her oafish husband, she tries to poison him. The poison plot is discovered and the husband recovers. Therese is kicked out and sent to Paris, where Author Mauriac harrowingly...