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...Hoodlum Priest. A bewildered boy, entrapped by life, finally finds freedom in the gas chamber. Crude and violent, Irvin Kershner's drama nonetheless shows that the divine spark can burn in trash...
...CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT. The Julliard String Quartet: Robert Mann and Isidore Cohen, violins; Raphael Hillyer, viola; Claus Adam, cello. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Free tickets may be obtained by writing the Mason Music Foundation, 59 Fayweather Street, and enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...Fantasy harks back to a number of abstract chamber works written (with a few exceptions) before 1935 and after 1946. Most are far less easily approached than the lyrical ballets; music critic Paul Rosenfeld once said that Copland's works of the early '30's "resemble nothing so much as steel cranes, bridges and the frame of skyscrapers." But although direct quotation of jazz and folk songs find little place in these pieces, both influences are now assimilated into his style and occur in an indirect fashion...
Will justice be merciful to this weak and deluded but not essentially evil young man? With appalling speed the verdict is reached, the sentence pronounced, the appeal denied. The condemned object is swiftly, efficiently prepared for the gas chamber. In the boy's eyes, wide with horror the spectator reads the incredulous realization: in a few short minutes his life, the only life he has or will ever have, is with absolute certainty going to end, for what can possibly save...
...impossible hope it flickers in his heart. In this hope the condemned man and his audience are so intensely interfused and mutually identified -thanks to the bone-honest, heartfelt playing of Dullea and Murray-that the spectator not only shares the victim's agony in the gas chamber but may even, at one transcendent moment in this film, feel himself dead in the dead man, feel the dead man living in himself. The experience is extraordinary - nothing less than an illusion of immortality...