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...Captain Brassbound's Conversion--One of Shaw's less well-known plays, starring Anne Revere. 8:30 at the Brattle...
...Captain Brassbound's Conversion--Mediocre Shaw at the Brattle. Stars Anne Revere...
...Captain Brassbound's Conversion," the story of how a woman converts a purposeless brigand into a purposeful one, is supposedly dominated by the female lead, Cicely Wayneflete. As played by Ann Revere this character is weak, inconsistent, and incapable of forcing the last act climax that Shaw envisioned. According to the script she is a woman who is to have her own way, and yet the awe with which her presence is greeted at the end of the first act hardly seems merited. One indeed wonders why her every word is met with instantaneous servility...
Ever since a young nobleman named Gustav Vasa fought his way to the throne in the 16th century and broke with Rome, Sweden has been overwhelmingly Lutheran. For most of that time it has had a Lutheran state church with the kind of brassbound temporal authority that Protestants are often pointing fingers at the Roman Catholics for. The king of Sweden and all his ministers had te be members of the Church of Sweden,* all citizens had to pay taxes for its support, and no one could leave it officially except to join another Christian church. Roman Catholics were forbidden...
...average Pentagon officer, unless born to paper-pushing routine, is apt to be a dissatisfied man. In the brassbound Pentagon, there are more admirals than ensigns, more generals than second lieutenants. The most common rank is lieutenant colonel or (in the Navy) commander. Before he was ordered to the Pentagon, a typical lieutenant colonel might have been commanding an antiaircraft battalion in Germany, with 31 officers and 723 men under his command, along with several million dollars' worth of guns and equipment...