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...rearrange its cargo of dogma for the hard sailing ahead. Many Roman Catholics and Protestants feel that the primary theological task is re-translation of traditional concepts into contemporary accents, and that to toss doctrine overboard is to betray the faith. Yet an influential minority of Christian thinkers is willing to do just that. It is an unarguable axiom for the Marburg Disciples of Germany's Rudolf Bultmann that Christianity must de-mythologize-that is, translate the essential elements of the New Testament proclamation into terms that relate to man's existential conflict today, while doing away with...
...Will Do It All the Time." And in this bubbling tale of feminine frailty, everything happens in pairs. There are two sisters, Fiordiligi and Dorabella, and their lovers, Guglielmo and Ferrando, respectively. Things get rolling when Don Alfonso, an old conniver, bets Guglielmo and Ferrando that their loves would betray them, given the chance...
...neck and nailing it to his jugular; 3) recalling the memory of President Kennedy and Volpe's criticism of him; 4)criticizing Volpe's sales tax as being against the common man; 5) appealing to the voter's Joyalty to the Party of the Poor Man. "We will not betray you." The Democrats in Massachusetts outnumber the state's 600,000 Republicans by 400,000. If they heed his call for party loyalty the future looks less than sanguine for the Republicans...
Traveller Without Luggage, the new Broadway season's opening play, is a 27-year-old drama by Jean Anouilh that does not so much betray its age as it does the ineptness of the French playwright in his youth. He concentrates on outer mechanics rather than inner change. He is more concerned with proving an intellectual thesis than with pumping the whole blood of the dramatic imagination into characters that command the stage. They merely mouth the playwright's favorite thoughts. Life corrupts. A man's memory is a history of petty and monstrous crimes, of fond...
...reminded of the calamity of 1939 with special force because it was unleashed in our name by a brutal ruler. It is quite clear that Hitler carries the prime guilt for World War II . . . The words which the German leadership then spoke in blind arrogance, hatred and megalomania betray such hubris and gross disregard for realities that this happening must remain a constant lesson and warning to future generations...