Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TALENT SCOUT, by Remain Gary (209 pp.; Harper; $3.75), is a potboiler with a difference. The difference is the devil. Not that he ever appears, but he is at the heart of a readable but contrived political allegory which talented Novelist Gary (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L) could have written only in a state of boredom. Gary's Faust is Jose, a South American adventurer who figures that if he is bad enough, the devil will see that he makes good. Relatively ordinary vices (pimping, incest) do not seem to work, but when he turns to politics...
...Devil's Advocate (adapted from Morris L. West's novel by Dore Schary) asks the largest questions raised on Broadway this season-the largest questions, whether of Catholic theology or of living in the world, that man can ask. The play begins with a dying man sent off to ask questions about a dead one: a cancer-ridden English monsignor at the Vatican journeys to a mountain town in Calabria to serve as devil's advocate in the matter of a possible canonization. He is to investigate-in terms of his role, as critically as possible...
...play's individual scenes-some of them flashbacks that put Nerone on the stage-have dramatic color and impact; several performances-Sam Levene's as the doctor, Leo Genn's as the monsignor-are striking. But though its theological concerns often acquire theatrical force, The Devil's Advocate seems discrete and unfocused in the theater...
BRATTLE: The last two days, ever, of BEAT THE DEVIL. Go see it another time...
...Bismarck among them is clear. It would be too much to expect a Bismarck in every generation.... It was taken for granted that the world was marked out by Providence for exploitation by the European white man and that the principle of every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost was natural law.... The rise of Japan, the Adua disaster, the Boxer rising, none of these epoch-making events really opened the eyes of Europe...