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...pastiche of Homer by Poet Robert Graves and Composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks suffers only the vice of murkiness: Nausicaa becomes Penelope, Odysseus becomes Aethon, the chorus sings in Greek to the soloists' English, and the recording omits long, crucial passages. But the music is electric, the myth is fey and absorbing, and the performance-recorded live from the opera's premiere at the 1961 Athens Festival-is as warm and engaging as a Greek night...
...Christian Century, which used to take pride in being "An Undenominational Weekly" and now takes equal pride in being "An Ecumenical Weekly," will soon have a new editor. Stepping down is scholarly Harold E. Fey (rhymes with sky), 65, whose zesty crusades and courageous sacred-cow punching have made Chicago-published Century a well-read and well-heeded organ of Christian unity since he succeeded the late Paul Hutchinson in 1956. Fey says, tongue in cheek: "Our editors retire at 65 because Dr. Hutch inson did. I believe he was right. Old men often get irresponsible because they know they...
Following Fey, who leaves in August to begin teaching at the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, is Managing Editor Kyle Haselden, 51, a former Baptist minister turned journalist. Haselden for his part plans to continue wading right in where controversy is the deepest. Says he: "We want not only to report what is happening, but to shape what ought to happen. We intend to be critical of the ecumenical movement from within the movement itself. We are not going to shoot arrows from Mount Olympus...
Children of the Damned. Half a dozen bright, attractive but inexplicably fey youngsters take refuge in an abandoned London church, where strange things begin to happen. What's to be done? "Destroy them," say British authorities. Officials of the U.S., Indian, Red Chinese, Russian and Nigerian governments agree that ruthless action is necessary. For these kids, brought from their homelands around the globe for scientific study, are extraordinary beings. Evil-eyed, they can will adults to do their bidding, even to commit murder and suicide. They can charge a dilapidated organ with such high-decibel energy that it becomes...
...Nanny's always Nanny and nobody dares call her Nan, Pamela Frankau has performed what must by now be almost a ritually required act for all female British authors. Despite this, the Weston children's summer opens onto satisfyingly sunny uplands of the past. Predictably arch and fey and charming, the characters are nevertheless conveyed with a kind of loving concern that can make even a relative seem momentarily fascinating...