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...result is a cross-rip of conflicting trends, awash with the froth and flotsam of derivative mannerisms and borrowed techniques, with only here and there a standout figure combining endurance, freshness and individual talent. Among those whose work indicates that they bear watching...
Janus is a more or less tolerable evening of inane froth...
...readers on a recent tour of the U.S.: "It is easy to be superior about American brashness and naivety, to be scornful of material progress as a purpose; to picture a whole continent slowly being moulded to the ideals of Hollywood," he wrote. "These things are only the surface froth that gets whipped about by the winds of publicity. Underneath there is the great solid sea of an American nation as simple in its aspirations, as traditional in its virtues, as conscious of its high destiny as any there has ever been in the old world...
...Negative. An articulate anti-Grahamite is Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr, who has done more than any man in the U.S. to hose away the froth of religious liberalism with the cold high-pressure stream of neo-orthodox polemic. The orthodoxy of Evangelist Graham, Niebuhr complains, is too naively orthodox. Liberal theology had one enormous asset: "The absolute honesty with which it encouraged the church to examine the scriptural foundations of its faith ... It is this distinct gain of liberal Christianity which is now imperiled, with the general loss of the prestige of liberalism and the general enhancement...
...making all three act and react in agreeably unbourgeois fashion, Playwright Green whips the situation into a nice comic froth. Then an Internal Revenue man arrives, finds that secret joint authorship leads to curious joint tax returns, and stirs up some fiscal commotion. After that, though in a rather graceful way, Janus goes downhill...