Word: parson
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...Bears were hit hard by graduation, goaltender Geoff Finch departure the most noteworthy. Finch started the past four years for Bob Gaudet, and now the coach will have to hope for a strong effort from junior Mike Parson. On the positive side, most of the defense is returning...
...Michel Bell sports an impressive basso profundo, but spoils Ol' Man River with a needlessly mannered performance.) Still, it is a relative nonsinger, John McMartin as Cap'n Andy, who is the surprising hit of the show: his desperate reenactment of the interrupted play-within-a-play, The Parson's Bride, is a comic highlight that stays in the mind the way Ol' Man River stays...
...atmosphere, then, is properly ominous at Camp Shelter, where Delia, Catherine and sisters Lenny and Alma explore a wilderness that mirrors their own sexual stirrings and confusion. The woods are dark, deep and haunted by both Christian and pagan spirits. A character named Parson flits in and out of Phillips' story as a sort of Fundamentalist avenger. Nature comes guileless in the person of Buddy, a knowing child of the forest, and Nature comes sinister in the form of Buddy's father Carmody, a backwoods pervert who would not have been out of place in James Dickey's Deliverance...
...Parson agrees, noting that in deciding theultimate arrangement, the committee takes "a lotof interest in intellectual adjacencies...
This realization came too late to Nussbaum, who brought to Washington the truculent manner of a big-city courtroom litigator and the political instincts of a country parson. His involvement in several notable White House debacles, including the travel-office uproar, the extended search for an Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered...