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...Wild Duck is tough to digest, the left-overs of The Wild Duck are even tougher. Picking up the theme of idealism's tragic inefficiency, Rosmersholm concerns a gritty, ambitious woman who imposes on a respectable pastor the belief that he can improve mankind. While the scene never shifts from the house that has been Rosmer's family bastion for cons, Ibsen reports that there is a great liberal-conservative struggle going on outside. He also assumes that "the poor people" are more or less milling about, waiting for a self-sacrificing word from Pastor Johannes Rosmer. So much...
...title of the show was hard to digest, and the contents even harder. When the 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture opened at the Carnegie Institute last week, it put on display 329 paintings and 116 sculptures by 441 artists from 29 countries. Most of the work was abstract, with each abstractionist striving for some idiom of his own. This striving, which in a one-man show often makes each work seem like every other, has the opposite effect in a group show like the Carnegie's. There the effect is not of monotony...
...years of publication-a birthday observed with a silver anniversary issue last week-the monthly Catholic Digest has become the least ecclesiastical, and the most widely accepted, publication produced under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church. Its paid circulation of 751,178 is surpassed among Catholic magazines only by Columbia (1,070,361), published largely for the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal order for Catholic laity. C.D. is printed in five languages and ten international editions (for Britain and Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, India, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the Philippines), and it is the only Catholic publication...
...That Is Pure." C.D.'s approach has not always been secular. Born in 1936 in the cellar of the chancery of the Cathedral of St. Paul, Minn., the Catholic Digest of Catholic Books and Magazines, as it was then called, took its inspiration and format from the Reader's Digest, its contents from other Catholic magazines, and its charter from St. Paul (Philippians 4): "All that rings true, all that commands reverence, and all that makes for right; all that is pure, all that is lovely, all that is gracious in the telling...
...purveying its varied reading diet, Catholic Digest has grown into something resembling big business. Besides its two creators and its present editor, the Rev. T. Kenneth Ryan, 56, the magazine employs a fulltime staff of 100, with correspondents and offices all over the U.S. and Europe. Like the Reader's Digest, it has its own book club (56,000 members), from time to time also publishes profitable hardcover anthologies drawn from back issues. Next year it will begin publishing a FORTUNE-sized magazine geared to the $4 billion Catholic trade market in the U.S.-schools, churches, hospitals, monasteries, convents...