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...glimpse of the Wizard of Oz. The wizard in this case turns out to be a pretty seedy character. To claim supernatural powers and then be caught in sordid acts--sexually abusing children or, even worse, shielding the abusers--is not only a moral problem. It is a near fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart...
...GLOBE-TROTTING Move over, Moby Dick. In April, two books will be coming out about a bloody moment in maritime history: the bloody mutiny on the whaleship Globe. Norton, publisher of Thomas Heffernan's "Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock," writes, "When Comstock - a headstrong 20-year-old - signed on to the whaleship Globe in 1822, his sea chest contained an unusual secret stash - a diverse collection of seeds, tools, medical supplies and weapons. With these neatly packed items, Comstock intended to carry out a strange career goal: to become king of his own South Seas...
...glimpse of the Wizard of Oz. The wizard in this case turns out to be a pretty seedy character. To claim supernatural powers and then be caught in sordid acts--sexually abusing children or, even worse, shielding the abusers--is not only a moral problem. It is a near fatal professional error. I wonder if the hierarchy knows how gravely the Roman Catholic Church, especially the American church, has been wounded. There's massive internal bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart...
...that now defines him. Barry sympathetically depicts Silvester as a man who knows he has done wrong, but believes that his motives were always noble. "What a pity love is no defense" he reflects, an image cleverly crystallized in a tale of his childhood, when he accidentally transmitted a fatal fever to his baby sister by hugging...
...play ends with this brilliant culmination: Broadwater, who has forced the audience throughout to witness his slow descent, writhes on the floor amidst the disordered set, surrounded by the inscrutable and brilliantly complex characters that induced his fatal paranoia...