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...Next night came the company's first Norma in nine years. Written in 1831, Norma was one of the last of the bel canto operas, designed chiefly for vocal acrobatics. The scene is Gaul of the Druids' day. Norma is a high priestess who has broken her vow of chastity and borne the Roman proconsul two children, only to find that he really loves a younger priestess. Much of the melody is limp as a drink of water and the harmonies have the simple severity of Stonehenge, but fastidious fans love...
...teacher, chaplain and headmaster at Stonyhurst, a Jesuit school for boys. Though he is almost painfully reserved, Father Belton seems to have no qualms about his new role as head of his order's most active newsmaker. He accepts it as one more opportunity to fulfill his vow of obedience...
...should leave this church without making a binding vow that, with God's grace, you will try from this moment on to be a better Christian ... If you are not changed, the carols of Christmas Day will not proclaim the birth of the Savior of mankind, no matter how beautifully they may be sung. Instead, they will echo with the hollow sound of human hypocrisy and say only to a skeptical world, 'The so-called Incarnation is nothing but a sentimental fraud...
Communist Tito stuck firmly to his vow to march into Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste the moment Italian troops march in to take over from Anglo-American authorities. He continued to build up troop concentrations along the Yugoslav-Italian border, the Zone A border and inside Zone B, which he runs. Not many miles away, on the Italian side, some of Italy's crack military units stood at the ready...
...have] resolved that I will never again go see a movie which features or stars such people [as] flout the sanctity of the marriage vow. And I love the movies...