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MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) fields a pair of champions, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who romp through this hilarious, sentimental, fiercely moral old tearjerker about a Neapolitan pastrymaker who is dragged to the altar by an indomitable tart...
...heard her could forget her. Wanda Landowska saw to that. A tiny black-clad priestess, palms pressed together in prayer, she would float in hushed silence to her altar, the harpsichord. A Romantic who played pre-Romantic music, she got shadings and majestic effects seemingly impossible on her instrument, and no one could equal her in bringing to independent life Bach's intertwined melodies. She took great liberties in interpretation, serenely confident of the backing of the dead composer. "You continue to play Bach your way," she told one musician. "I shall continue to play Bach his way. What...
...What TIME overlooks in its appraisal of the Ecumenical Council is that if there is a need for a mystical body such as the Roman Catholic Church, then it cannot be democratic. In the ideal democracy every man celebrates the continuous mystery of himself at the altar of his own divinity. In a world oriented to incentives, gain, self-aggrandizement and sanctified greed, there is an urgent need for a mystical, symbolic figure, which the role of Pope fulfills...
...mechanics of the change are often troublesome. Although Catholic publishers have rushed into print new altar missals for the priest, laymen will have to fumble with leaflets and mimeographed texts of the prayers in English. The new Mass should be celebrated on a plain altar by a priest facing the congregation; many pseudo-Gothic churches have ornate high altars fixed to the wall-a situation that calls for either drastic architectural surgery or the unesthetic installation of an additional altar...
Every evening at 8, at a drab brick building in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, the stage is set for the American Place Theater production of Poet Robert Lowell's The Old Glory. Every Sunday at noon, with the addition of an altar, the same building is ready for the Holy Communion services of St. Clement's Episcopal Church, an off-Broadway mission parish serving the theater community. Running both shows is the Rev. Sidney Lanier, 41, a lively, loquacious priest who as president of the theater and vicar of St. Clement's is trying...