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Allowing for much practical ellipsis and a few brazen disfigurations (it was Hector, not Paris, who killed Patroclus), the script by John Twist shows a commendable respect for the letter of the myth. It is the spirit that is Twisted. Homer's was a mythic drama in which gods and heroes, love and politics, war and religion moiled in the mortar of imagination. Helen of Troy is basically a story of hot pants in high places. The hero, accordingly, is not "godlike Hector" or "great Achilles" but "soft Paris," whom even Helen called a coward. As the part...
After listening to a recording which explains that the temple will not be used as a house of public worship but for ceremonies only, visitors see the baptismal font in the basement (stainless steel, supported, like the priests' washbasin in Solomon's Temple, by twelve brazen oxen). Then they visit the recorder's office, where
There is a brazen, often hilarious farcicality about it all. In a production gagged to the teeth, liberty lurches into license, license swaggers into outrageousness, and farce reasserts its ancient claim to a kind of benevolent hoodlumism...
...Alabama Polytechnic Institute team will take on Vanderbilt University in the "Gator" Bowl game at Jacksonville, Fla. Kissin' Jim plans to be there, free-loaded, with room for a mighty entourage of playmates. Last week, however, anticipating stiff crosswinds from Washington, Folsom decided to brazen it out, announced the flight schedule for one of the South's greatest peacetime air armadas. "Under my power as Commander in Chief of the Alabama Air National Guard, I am ordering every jet, every C-47 and everything that can roll on wheels, much less, fly, to fly over Jacksonville...
...Soviet Union over its announced intentions to furnish more arms to the Arab states. In the conduct of their European policy, the Russians can always make the claim that their legitimate security interests are involved. In the Middle East, their policy should be branded for what it is--a brazen and irresponsible effort to make an unhappy situation worse...