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...penitents purge one of the seven deadly sins. The proud plod under heavy burdens; the envious wander with eyelids sewn shut; the gluttonous gaze at inaccessible fruit. As Dante and Virgil ascend, they meet famous figures of the Middle Ages engaged in the agonies of atonement-among them Pope Adrian V, King Philip the Fair, the poets Guido Guinizelli and Arnaut Daniel. At first the climb is cruelly difficult, but as Dante ascends it becomes easier. Both as a man and a poet, he visibly grows as he goes. In I'lnferno the verse is harsh, immediate, brilliant...
...ADRIAN B. WAINWRIGHT Agency Personnel Officer Export-Import Bank of Washington Washington...
...Henry Higgins, Shaw substitutes the philosopher-king of Rome. In place of the forlorn flower girl who must be passed off as a lady, the play offers an adolescent Egyptian minx who must be tutored in regality. The playwright's purposes are somewhat thwarted by this recording. Max Adrian is little better than a fashionably tailored verbal dandy, and an overagitated Claire Bloom is more often short of breath than breathless...
Tuesday, February 16 THE HOLLOW CROWN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Part 1 of a panorama of English history by England's Royal Shakespeare Company, starring Dorothy Tutin, Max Adrian, Paul Hardwick and John Barton...
Elsewhere in the world, the prospects are even worse. By the year 2000, estimates the French Catholic demographer Adrian Bouffard, only 20% of the earth's population will be Christian -compared with 35% in 1900. Moreover, the churches' very existence is threatened in areas where growth is most rapid. In Africa and Asia, for example, the young churches must brave the resurgence of such non-Christian faiths as Islam and Buddhism, the enmity of freedom movements that would eradicate the "white man's religion" as a vestige of the colonial past...