Word: thou
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...conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form," but also that he believes in a "Supreme Being." Many belong to the "peace churches," which sprang up after the Reformation and which, though their explanations are often more complex, in effect brook no compromise with the commandment "Thou shalt not kill." One faith, Jehovah's Witnesses, deems it a sin to have anything to do with conscription on grounds that each of its members is a minister and would be barred by national service from preaching; approximately 5,000 Witnesses went to prison rather than be inducted. Most peace...
...Thou shalt not exploit another person sexually. This, in effect, is the imperative that should determine the moral legitimacy of sexual intercourse, in marriage or out, says a report on "Sex and Morality" published last week by a committee of the British Council of Churches...
...movie without spending money-in fact, he has made a movie without even making a movie. For about $66,000, advanced by Producer Henry Saperstein, Allen bought up a ludicrously lousy Japanese thriller that was made in glorious TohoColor and should have been confiscated as contraBond. For a couple thou on top of that, he eliminated some Japtrap, erased the Japanese talk track and dubbed in some English dialogue that transforms the story into Allengory and the characters into kooky-yacky...
Father Boyd gets mixed reviews. Variety called him "hipper-than-thou." San Francisco's Columnist Ralph Gleason dismissed his act as "boring" and advised him that "the nightclubs are in far less need of preachers than the cathedrals." He sometimes has to deal with heckling spectators who have had a bit too much to drink, but in general the audience, which often includes priests and ministers, seems to like his act. The Rev. James Clark Brown, pastor of San Francisco's First Congregational Church, calls Father Boyd's appearance at the hungry i "the most effective...
...simplicity as he takes his orders from the Almighty, cramming in a lot of low comedy aboard the Ark and looking sorely tempted to burst into the Rodgers & Hammerstein admonition that chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry. Generally, the acting style is holier-than-thou, for Huston conducts his ensemble rather like an old-fashioned Sunday-school master who has put on a multimillion-dollar spring pageant and copped the best parts for himself...