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...Latin word for "hem" or "border"), a fringe of hell where they spend eternity in a state of natural happiness. Published this week is a lively survey of the still unfinished debate over this theological issue, called Limbo: Unsettled Question (Sheed & Ward; $3.95). The author, the Rev. George J. Dyer, is a professor of patristic theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary near Chicago...
Most Christians have always defended the necessity of baptism for salvation, relying on Jesus' words in St. John's Gospel: "Unless a man be born again of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." The stern-minded theologians of early Christianity, Father Dyer says, interpreted these words strictly, and consigned unbaptized babes to hell. "They are vessels of contumely and the wrath of God is upon them," wrote St. Augustine. "If no one frees them from the grasp of the devil, what wonder is it that they must suffer in flames with...
Schlamme's trained voice seems a bit too genteel to audiences accustomed to the guitar-bound school of folk singers-they tend to write her off as a lady Richard Dyer-Bennet. But in her Weill program, her emotional command over her audiences is unshakable. The nervous laughter that always greets such songs as Seerauber-Jenny and Barbara's Song dies in the throat under the weight of her sad eyes. "It's easy for me to feel like a rejected woman," she says, "and I think I can make it clear that...
Rattle of a Simple Man, by Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. Stalemated between farce and pathos, the play does not go anywhere either; but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin...
...head over heels in love with love. The musical's sweethearts are Barbara Cook and Daniel Massey, son of Raymond. Carol Haney's dance spoofs and the Sheldon Harnick-Jerry Bock score keep this romantic fairy tale spinning. Rattle of a Simple Man, by Charles Dyer, locks a London floozy and a virginal Manchester clerk in a bedroom and then busily prevents them from going to bed. The play is stalemated between farce and pathos, but Tammy Grimes is a beguiling imp and Edward Woodward a touchingly vulnerable bumpkin. Mother Courage, by Bertolt Brecht. Anne Bancroft pulls...