Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Act II, on strides "Big Daddy." This time he is Boss Finley (Sidney Blackmer) a demogogic Southern politician, and he wears a yellow dressing gown instead of Burl Ives's white one. The first Big Daddy psychologically emasculated his son; this one threatens Chance Wayne with physical castration. It seems that Heavenly, the Boss's daughter, contracted a disease from Chance years ago and had to have a hysterectomy. In scenes of bogus dramaturgy, Boss Finley and his children snarl revelations at each other (e.g., he keeps a mistress) that should have been common family knowledge for years...
...modern classic, Juno and the Paycock is fashioned around characters who escape the last-act curtain and become dramatic immortals like Hamlet, Tartuffe, and St. Joan. Captain Boyle, the strutting Paycock, is a Homeric boozer, braggart and whine. With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life...
Though he does not act his age, John knows that at 77 he cannot count on a long reign. "Well, here I am-at the end of the road and the top of the heap," he told visiting Canadian Premier John Diefenbaker. At another audience he said: "I who have come to the pontificate at such an advanced age do not despair of receiving from the Lord at least the time conceded to St. Agatho [Pope from 678 to 681]. There are so many things...
Looking for something to deepen the sense of Christian solidarity on the layman's level, Cullmann was inspired by the collection St. Paul made among his missionary churches for the poor Christians in Jerusalem. This, says Cullmann, was not merely an act of charity but was intended by Paul as a "symbol of unity" between circumcised and uncircumcised, Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since unity is not possible today, the offering "would no longer be a symbol of unity, but of solidarity, of brotherhood among all who invoke the name of Christ...
...welter of legal reforms pushed through by Charles de Gaulle when he took over France's destiny last year, two new laws set the press to trembling. One decreed imprisonment or fines for anyone publishing "by act, word or writing that which throws discredit on jurisdictional act or decision." The other authorized the same punishment for "whoever publishes before the intervention of the definitive jurisdictional decision comment tending to exercise pressures on the declarations of witnesses or on the decisions of judges...