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...talk entitled "Cassandra and Atropos: Jeffers and Sitwell," Rev. Wilder praised modern skeptics for rejecting the "perverted version" of the Passion propounded by these and other poets. He felt that the importance of the Crucifixion lies in the "objective intervention" of God, not in the suffering of Christ...
Concerning Cassandra's column in the London Daily Mirror about Liberace...
Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...
...women. But after all this simply reversed the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume had a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this made more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with a Southern United States drawl...
Henry Adams, by Elizabeth Stevenson, brought sound sense and a thaw of compassion to one of the finest minds and coolest customers in U.S. intellectual history. Biographer Stevenson also forged a convincing emotional link between Adams' Cassandra-like forebodings and his numb grief over his wife's suicide...