Word: angel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martin holds an orthodox Catholic view of spiritual history: God and his fallen angel Satan are engaged in a struggle for the souls of men. One of Satan's tools, through lesser spirits, is the possession of humans. And so Martin provides us with the case histories of five possessed Americans and details their successful exorcisms...
BLACK-CLAD DEVILS hang from a lattice-like set, the Seven Deadly Sins stalk the stage holding papier mache animal masks and a blueleotarded Good Angel sits perched on a platform above a placarded face that radiates heavenly sincerity. It's an impressive spectacle, a testament to the superb technical direction that characterizes the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Doctor Faustus. Unlike most Houses, Leverett has its own theatre, and director Evangeline Morphos has made the most of its facilities, skillfully transforming the entire room into a three-dimensional world where the forces of evil clash colorfully with...
Also excellent is Nancy Abrams' rendering of the Bad Angel. Sinuously tempting and later sneering with triumph, Abrams is so much more convincing that her heavenly counterpart that it's easy to figure out why this Faustus opts for hell. Jenny Marre is enticing in several cameo roles--she plays everyone from Belzebub to a lisping, pregnant duchess--but she's a bit too pudgy as Helen of Troy...
...Parsifal, Preludes to Act I and Act III of Lohengrin (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; Philips; $7.98). If records like this did not come along occasionally, one would tend to take these familiar excerpts for granted-as Herbert von Karajan obviously does in a bleary competing version on Angel. The freshness and vigor of Haitink's interpretations stem, surprisingly enough, from his scrupulously orthodox approach. He is less interested in conveying his own message than in getting his men-all of whom seem to be virtuosos-to play precisely what Wagner wrote. What they play is fortunately given...
...angel of extermination," as Anne Frank called Mengele in her diary, was not arrested after the war. He lived openly in Bavaria until 1951, when pressure to bring him to justice forced his retreat to the havens of Argentina and Paraguay. Only when Israeli agents came hunting did he flee to the cover of a German settlement in the Paraguayan jungle. Presumably he is still there, drinking Chilean Riesling and reminiscing about the Third Reich...