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...Gideon (by Paddy Chayefsky) explores the relationship of an ordinary man to God. There could scarcely be a larger theme. It demands great powers of eloquence and intellect, a burning air of exaltation that Playwright Chayefsky does not fully command. But he does possess high gifts of humor, characterization, and a sense of the dominion and perplexity of faith, and these help make his play a lustrous and compelling experience...
Through three successive days last week, hoarse-voiced Prosecuting Attorney Gideon Hausner stretched out his final summation against Adolf Eichmann, whom he described as "more evil than Hitler." It was all a little anticlimactic. After listening to one more repetition of Eichmann's crimes, an Israeli spectator complained impatiently, "Why do we need all this? Every baby in Israel knows Eichmann is guilty...
...DRAMAS:, A tramp moves in with two exceedingly odd brothers in Redbriack. Dramatist Harold Pinter's The Caretaker , a hit last year in London (Oct. 4). Playwright Paddy Chayefsky is back again . This time with a contemporary treatment of the Old Testaments Gideon in which a poor farmer becomes a military genius and Fredric March walks the stage as an angel of God (Nov. 9). Broadway audiences will get their first look at much-acclaimed British Actor Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons, a study of Sir Thomas More (Nov. 22). Tennessee Williams has now gone...
Bureaucrat Eichmann had performed meticulously; anything outside routine offended him. Prosecutor Gideon Hausner quoted the defendant's wartime notes complaining of a Berlin Chancellery official who wanted special help in disposing of some people he found particularly irksome: "This is the most important shop in the entire Reich, and here this uncle asks me whether he could have a few trains. And he is very courteous and cordial, because he wants to stoke the stove with a few idiots...
...there is no responsibility, there can be no guilt." Thus, finishing 70 hours of testimony, he closed up the last of the brown folders from which he had produced mountains of documents, blew his nose heartily and leaned back to receive the onslaught of cross-questioning from Attorney General Gideon Hausner...