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...CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE. Playwright Ugo Betti finds a tiny glint of light in the tarnished soul of a corrupt justice and gives it a chance to shine after a suffocating night journey through the earthly kingdom of evil...
...most interesting comment in the book appears in the author's answer to the question of whether politics dominated by the middle-class ethos is appreciably better than boss-controlled politics. Administration is more efficient and less corrupt, but there are still problems. "If in the old days specific material inducements were illegally given as bribes to favored individuals, now much bigger ones are legally given to a different class of favored individuals, and, in addition, general inducements are proffered in packages to every group in the electorate and to tiny but intensely moved minorities as well." The style...
Brisk English. Some Scriptural experts complain that Phillips' concern for sense rather than literal accuracy produces paraphrase rather than translation. Nonetheless, his method produces particularly happy results in Hosea, a puzzling book with a notoriously corrupt Hebrew text. Freely transposing sentences and phrases, Phillips produces line after line of brisk English that enlightens where the King James Version confuses-and probably makes more sense than the original. Sample comparative verses from Hosea...
...journeys to the end of the night finds day, so Cust in his single-minded pursuit of evil finds his soul, and in that soul a damning consciousness of his own sin. Just as the world, symbolized by the court, cannot cleanse itself, being innately corrupt, so Cust the sinner cannot save himself. He needs to be redeemed by innocent blood and forgiven through the gratuitous gift of love to the totally unworthy. Elena, the symbol of this grace, performs the dual function of awakening in Cust a conviction of sin and the possibility of salvation...
...College was determined to provide an audience for this spokenwoman for a vicious and corrupt minor dictatorship, it should at least have given her the reception--polite, but clearly disapproving--she deserves. Linda Greenberg...