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...Jesuit professor in Rome. "It was a speech by a man who doesn't understand the situation. His language was that of the old Roman papal bulls, which talked about going out under the banner of Christ. Of course, if you take it literally, it's absurd...
There is something patronizing and Chaplinesque in this scene: a touch of the pathetic and the grotesque that ungratefully suggests an author condescending from an arrogant altitude upon the lives of the absurd little people he has consented to consider. But the grotesquerie, more often than not, is magically imaginative, and the little people are accorded minute examination and archetypal significance-if not full human being. Joe Buck is a Job in boob boots...
...Chancellor's office has duly issued its decision: henceforth, Mrs. Lane will be Mr. Justice Lane, and may indeed be called "My Lord." "There simply isn't any precedent for calling a woman anything different," argued a harassed official. "We've taken what seems the least absurd decision...
Firari, winner in 1960 of the William Morris Scholarship in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama, has ten plays, most of them produced, to his credit. His present effort, like most plays from the Theatre of the Absurd, is ambitions. "Who is Man?" and "What Is God" are the basic questions considered...
...cardinal's hat and began peppering the Irish countryside with foine, unclerical prose. "I was nearly going to be a Jesuit," he reported, "but on the night before I was to join the novitiate, I quit. The Jesuits have been thanking God ever since." And later: "It is absurd in this part of the 20th century that the Ecumenical Council has no translation system such as the United Nations has. I am no scholar, I never earned a degree. And when I go to the Council I don't know what in the name of God is going...