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Jess Thomas scores high on all counts, as he proved last week singing the role of Radames in the Metropolitan Opera production of A'ida. His military garb amply revealed his impressive dimensions (which he will recite like a cover girl: "Six feet three inches, 200 pounds, 49-inch chest, 32-inch waist"), plus a pair of legs that the Italians rank with those of Tenor Franco ("Golden Calves") Corelli. Thomas' voice was stamped with virility-clear, sturdy, securely focused, with a rich lyrical quality that is unusual among heldentenors. While his acting tends toward the hand-clasped...
...clergy. Readers also provide most of the items for "Cry Pax!", a weekly column noting with deadpan wit the latest in churchly foibles-such as that the movie Rotten to the Core was approved by the Legion of Decency, or that a Brooklyn firm sold costumes modeled after the garb of priests, bishops and nuns for trick-or-treating children to wear in celebration of "the religious meaning" of Halloween...
...meaningful statement on religious liberty. He might liberalize his church's birth-control laws. The population explosion contributes to unrest, and the Pope can slow it down. His trip will do about as much good as the trips of those do-gooders who invaded the South in clerical garb instead of working at home for these worthy causes...
...Reformation, Roman-style " Unlike Luther's drastic break with the medieval past, it is a reformation in which change is often so subtle that it sometimes does not seem like change at all. It is a reformation in which radical ideas blossom in traditional Latin garb, in which continuity receives as much emphasis as novelty, in which new ways are inevitably coupled with warnings against imprudent excess. It is a reformation not of acts but of attitudes whose distant goal is the ultimate reconciliation of the church with other faiths and with the modern world It is, in fact...
...approved by the Senate, Marshall will become the 33rd U.S. Solicitor General and the first Negro to hold the office. Wearing the traditional garb of swallowtail coat and striped pants, he will argue the Federal Government's most important cases before the Supreme Court and have considerable say about which cases the Government takes to the Supreme Court on appeal...