Word: brotherhood
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Intolleranza is a politically inspired work, but its brotherhood-of-man theme is basic Sunday school rather than party dogma. More important, it represents a significant step in developing a new language for modern opera. And for one at least, the language of Intolleranza carried a very special meaning. Jan Skalicky, the costume designer for the Boston production and son of a former Czech consul to the U.S., announced at week's end that he was defecting...
That night he spoke of brotherhood and his willingness to help civil rights leaders as he later tried to help Martin King in Selma. And yet at the Law School Forum he questioned whether a "certain Negro leader" should receive a peace prize when there was no peace...
...chance to play holy charades. Jesus cures a cripple (Sal Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters). He bears his cross under the stern eye of Roman Centurion John Wayne. Veronica is Carroll Baker, who mops his brow, and-in a labored salute to brotherhood-he gets a helping hand from Simon of Cyrene (Sidney Poitier). Such coy vignettes add star power but not stature. They merely bolster the evidence that Western man's greatest story has yet to be greatly told on film...
None but the Brave. As producer, director and star of this World War II melodrama, Frank Sinatra is triply committed to a piece of flip moral hindsight. War is archaic, he says. It is also rough on brotherhood. But he cannot conceal his boyish enthusiasm for any activity that brings together a swell bunch of guys...
Tragic Role. But last week as the nation held its first postindependence general election, there was precious little brotherhood, and Nigeria's model democracy lay in a shambles of violence, poll rigging, boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference...