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Just off the Rue Pigalle in Paris, men with picks, shovels and wrecking equipment are preparing to demolish a tiny, 230-seat theater that has just folded after 65 bloodcurdling years. It is the Grand Guignol. Although its name had percolated down to the bedrock of dramatic criticism in half a dozen languages, most people thought the theater itself had vanished long since. Now they are right. The last clotted eyeball has plopped onto the stage. The last entrail has been pulled like an earthworm from a conscious victim. The Grand Guignol is closed forever...
...literal truth of the Bible is the bedrock of faith for Southern Baptists. But lately, in some Baptist seminaries, scholars have been cautiously moving toward the Biblical criticism accepted by most other Protestant denominations, which suggests that parts of Holy Scripture are symbolically valid but literally impossible. Last week in San Francisco, "messengers" (delegates) to the annual convention of the fast-growing church (around 10 million) firmly repudiated the seminarians. By overwhelming standing vote, the convention passed one resolution that reaffirmed the faith of the church in "the entire [the resolution's italics] Bible as the authoritative, authentic, infallible...
...Missing Bedrock. Morgan concedes that there have always been skeptics. But in the past, there always "remained a substratum of theologically integrated assumptions to which reference could be meaningfully made": monotheism, moral order, afterlife, sin. But modern man has rejected the assumptions, and even when he goes to church, he is deeply infected by doubt. He knows that "for millennia his ancestors lived in an era with other bedrock assumptions than his own, an era which can be called Hebrew-Christian." but modern man "no longer lives in that era, and what is more, he no longer wants...
...Left to Be Right. As Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod liquidated African colonies at a clip that would soon have liquidated the Colonial Office. Diehard imperialists argued that he was selling the white man down the river, but Macleod's policy was built on bedrock Tory principles: duty and realism. With most young Britons, he believes Whitehall has a responsibility to bring the colonies to mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies...
...They want to carry nothing forward, but to get rid of all their inherited aesthetic and intellectual lumber; they have no public hope, for they feel soiled and guilty from contact with any part of existing society. They want to strip bare and dig down to a hoped-for bedrock showing no trace of an earlier passage of man. This is what Mr. Allen Ginsberg means when he says that man himself is obsolete; this is what Samuel Beckett and others are trying to show us on a stage where no responses are predictable or congenial; this is what...