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...Doctor's Duty," on the failed attempt to separate the conjoined Bijani twins [July 21], asserted that medically assisted suicide causes us to embark on a slippery slope. How absurd! Krauthammer failed to see the big picture, in which death is simply part of life. Rusty van Druten Gauteng, South Africa...
Kolvenbach has a special interest in these churches. Born in Druten, a small village in east Holland, he went to Lebanon as a missionary in 1958; there he became an expert in Armenian (he is fluent in seven other languages). Kolvenbach later earned a doctorate in Armenian in Paris, spent a year of spiritual study at a Jesuit center in Pomfret, Conn., then returned to Beirut as a professor at St. Joseph's University. He later headed the Jesuits' Middle East province (Lebanon, Syria and Egypt). "Father Kolvenbach is a classic Jesuit," says an official in Rome...
Playwright John van Druten dresses up Nazism in cabaret clothes, spotlighting the rise of the political party on the stage of a nightclub. The specter of Nazism looms over Berlin, transforming the frantic pursuit of pleasure in the cabaret from an escape into a form of participation in the new cause. As Cabaret progresses, the interspersed dance numbers lose their decadent innocence and turn into vicious political diatribes...
...Druten's play about the Nazis' rise traces its effect on personal lives, a much more difficult task than straight historical or political narration. Alternate scenes take place in the Kit Kat Club, juxtaposing the drama with the dance numbers, which relate more or less subtly to the plot...
...fall apart when the prospect of parenthood forces Cliff and Sally to look more seriously at their happy-go-lucky lives. The pace of the show picks up, and in a short, confusing scene, a Nazi soldier appears on stage, sings "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," and disappears. Perhaps van Druten wishes the audience to experience the confusion the German people actually felt about what was happening around them. We already know what happened, though, and this mournful scene only puzzles a modern audience...