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from The Living Church
Magazine of The Living Church Foundation (Anglican)
Katherine Hepburn and Zeal
By Sarah McCullough Cornwell: This is the fourth post in a series in which I explore what classic film actresses in iconic roles can teach us — and, more particularly, my fast-growing daughter — about the seven classic virtues. These posts follow the order of the virtues that Dante encounters in his journey up through Purgatorio. Katherine Hepburn’s character in Adam’s Rib builds upon Dante’s two exemplars of zeal in Purgatorio, enabling her to combat the sloth of the modern judicial system (which, in some ways, can be understood through Dante’s examples of this same vice). This conversation between a 1320 text and a 1949 film provides an odd but potentially insightful window into the nature of zeal and sloth. It’s also a means of better appreciating the complementary — as opposed to antagonistic — relationship between men and women, particularly in a marriage.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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