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...other work in the canon shows more formally patterned structure and diction. Yet in this apprentice play Shakespeare wrote with unsurpassed gusto, letting the lines pour forth in torrents and saying things in several ways instead of choosing the best. The result was a ripsnorting melodrama that offered Elizabethas what horror movies provide us today. Richard III lacks the subtlety, artistry and development that we see in his nearest relatives, Macbeth and logo. And the whole play moves straightforwardly, putting few difficulties in our way except for a confusing genealogy...
Vatican sources pointed out that Article 139 of the church's canon law forbids priests to hold elective office, though the provision does allow local church authorities to make exceptions if they decide a priest's involvement in politics would be for the good of the community. The Pope formally revoked only the exemption given to Drinan in 1970. Nonetheless, the Catholic hierarchy interpreted the Pope's act as a signal that John Paul will apply Article 139 much more strictly than his predecessors did. Said a church spokesman in Washington: "It is clear that the Pope...
...Pope spoke repeatedly about Christianity's social role in Africa. In a week when two U.S. priests had to drop races for Congress because John Paul has reasserted the canon forbidding the clergy to take direct part in electoral politics, the papal point seemed contradictory. But John Paul's policy applies to priests, not laymen. He wants to leave social action basically to the laity, while bishops and priests speak out in principle for human and religious rights and against corruption and violence. "The against corruption and violence. "The Christian faith does not provide you with readymade solutions...
Some of Runcie's African flock are not entirely pleased about the Pope. Nairobi's Canon Kenneth Stovold has publicly complained that the Pope's attacks on birth control in Africa would spoil in tensive efforts to hold down the tremendous population increases on the continent. Colin Winter, the exiled bishop of Namibia (South West Africa) divides all Christians into the "church of the oppressor and the church of the oppressed." Says Winter sourly: "I don't think a Polish Pope can understand Africa. His attitudes are extremely reactionary. His hangup is Communism, Communism...
Every type of cherished ploy from the classic Marx canon is here, the inane non sequiturs, the sappy puns and the bedlam chases, in this instance through the byzantine corridors of Tony Walton's red-wallpapered dollhouse of a set. Dick Vosburgh splices his own lines into the action as if he had collaborated on the films. To use a song title from the show: Hooray for Hollywood...