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Added Father Gabriel, the third Superior, who is portly, too: "When we rise, it sounds like corks coming out of a bottle...
...their own coffins (as legend says Trappists once did), but the mattresses are hard as a slab in a city morgue. The 60 men are gradually learning the manual labor necessary to run a big estate. At the moment, most of them are hopelessly inept. "The supposition," laments Father Gabriel, "is that Trappists are great agriculturists. But that isn't the case here. They're all city kids." The community is fattening 200 steers, starting a large vegetable garden and 75 acres of corn. Next year it may begin making Oka cheese, a Trappist specialty...
...fable is of the Negro fundamentalist view of the Universe--angels at a fish-fry, Gabriel with a shiny French horn that he's itching to blow, and God in a black suit and string tie. This treatment is excellent comedy, but after a few scenes it is evident that Mr. Connelly has also achieved a meaning and honesty that is extraordinary. In his program note he writes that "The Green Pastures" is concerned with "Man's long, weary seeking for the Divine in himself." It is enough to say that Connelly has fully succeeded in expressing this search...
...best ensemble acting in years, and credit for this goes to Connelly, who directed, as well as to the talent of the cast. Some of the individual performances are little less than perfect. William Marshall, as De Lawd, has immense awe-inspiring dignity. And when Ossie Davis, as Gabriel, cries out "Gangway! Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah! you almost expect Him to step out of the wings. Noah becomes a wonderful comic creation in the hands of Alonzo Bosan. The list of fine performances in "The Green Pastures" is a long...
Chile's President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla seemed in an unusually expansive mood. Wrapped in a borrowed admiral's cape, he watched his small but well-trained fleet in combat maneuvers at Quintero naval air base. Later he announced: "We just bought two cruisers . . . Thanks to the good will and the facilities granted by the U.S. Government, we will soon add . . . the U.S.S. Brooklyn and Savannah* to our fleet...