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...pity that the French were the first to attempt an adaptation of Arthur Miller's controversial play The Crucible. The Salem witch trials, conducted in the severe Calvinistic atmosphere of colonial New England, represent an American aberration that Director Raymond Rouleau and his forces do not sufficiently comprehend. The fact that the good people of Salem talk French, and that the town itself is depicted as the type of medieval slum most often found in realist movies throws the entire production almost irretrievably off balance...
...grounds more familiar to them: how does religion relate to things taught them at the University? How does it fit in with different philosophies?" Religion is discussed from the reference frame of their new value system. This is inimical to the study of religion. The values used to comprehend Judaism are thus foreign...
WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE-"Some episodes are (perhaps fortunately) far too mature for children to comprehend. For youth and adults alike, the total effect is one of confusion, distortion and terror -an effect compounded by the poor quality of much of the acting...
WITH a passion few U.S. citizens comprehend, monarchical Canada scorns the republicanism of its neighbors to the south. "Our ideal, by right of inheritance, is the ideal of the King-in-Parliament," wrote Montreal Economist John Farthing, bluntly and articulately, in his book Freedom Wears a Crown. "It requires for its fulfillment the acceptance of initial loyalty to a sovereign as opposed to allegiance simply to a system of law. Anyone who does not find the first preferable to the second is out of place in Canada. He should be an American citizen, not a British subject." For the next...
...grounds more familiar to them: how does religion relate to things taught them at the University? How does it fit in with different philosophies?" Religion is discussed from the reference frame of their new value system. This is inimical to the study of religion. The values used to comprehend Judaism are thus foreign...