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...Marcel Camus has surrounded a legend that was old when the Greeks told it, with the rhythm of Negro music and singing, with magic borrowed from a dozen lands, and finally with the beauty and color of Rio's carnival. Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
Christians, says McCord, should accept the new age as a gift of God. "What is needed is 'Christians who remain Christians,' to use a phrase of Albert Camus, In a powerful essay in his posthumously published Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, Camus exclaims: 'What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out loud and clear; for between the forces of terror and the forces of dialogue, a great unequal battle has begun.' Notice his grouping, the forces of dialogue, men who acknowledge other men as persons, against the forces of terror...
...Camus died without hearing that clear voice from the Christian camp, and now the forces of 50-megaton terror bray louder than ever. McCord concludes with another Camus passage: " 'We are still waiting, and I am waiting, for a grouping of all those who refuse to be dogs, and are resolved to pay the price that must be paid so that man can be something more than...
Fine Arts: The best twin bill in Boston at the moment. BLACK ORPHEUS is Marcel Camus' re-telling of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth in modern Rio. Don't go if you're tired; it's excellent but exhausting. Color is spectacular...
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). A monologue dramatization of the late Nobel Prizewinner Albert Camus' novel, The Fall...