Word: parish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mafia wives rarely unburden themselves to friends, and sometimes not even to their parish priests. Says a Grosse Pointe priest: "One woman's husband is in prison. She doesn't want to be asked how he is. The subject is never introduced. Her man is away; she misses the father of her children...
...Father Mouret. This Franju film begins like a color version of Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest. A fragile, handsome young priest just out of seminary has taken on the parish of a provincial town full of peasant atheists. He wants to believe that by the strength of his fervent faith alone he will convert even the most cynical, irreverent non-believers. His fasting, like that of the priest in Bresson's film, makes him weaker and weaker; but instead of succumbing to tuberculosis, he develops amnesia. There the parallels end. The rest of the movie carries him through...
Edwin O. Reischauer, Brian Fall and Hiroaki Jujll--First Parish in Cambridge...
...many towns see parades like the one the "Town of Southie" enjoyed under sunny skies and amid melting mounds of snow. The marchers themselves--the South Boston VFW Post, Boy Scouts, the parish Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Youth Organization, and even the Harvard University Band--were amateurish compared to those who appear in the parades of most large cities, but this show was no Pasadena spectacular intended for viewed from a cordoned-off curbside...
Wednesday, Feb. 16--A diverse panel will debate solar energy at the Cambridge Forum at the First Parish Church of Cambridge, on Harvard Square at 8:00 pm. Among the panelists will be Robert Willis, President of the Exxon subsidiary, Solar Power Corp., Peter Glazer, a vice-president of Arthur D. Little, who favors a solar energy satellite power station, and Professor Bruce Chalmers, who favors photovoltaic cells to produce energy from...