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Zipper Fragments. It is a good rule to leave a foreign body alone unless the heart continues to rebel against its presence, report Dr. Edward F. Bland of Massachusetts General Hospital and Dr. Gilbert W. Beebe of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. The heart usually accommodates itself to any hunk of metal that does not interfere with the working of a valve...
Columnist Harry Golden once jokingly suggested that Jewish leaders gather in Jerusalem to issue a declaration exonerating Christians from their crimes against Judaism. More seriously, Rabbi Arthur Gilbert of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League feels that Jews must indeed be prepared to recognize that neither all Christians nor Christianity itself is responsible for the anti-Semitism of the past. He also warns that a condition of true dialogue is for Christians to forsake their "patronizing attitude" that the Jews are "a fossilized people who now must wander through time awaiting that moment...
Iolanthe is Gilbert at his most wonderfully preposterous, Sullivan at his best, and Harvard G&S only slightly unworthy of them both. But theirs is a clever and, in the end, triumphant unworthiness. They have transformed an admittedly far-out world into a farcical one, and they have done it awfully well...
...sure whether Stephen Michaels, who plays Strephon, is miscast, or has simply been directed for all the laughs he's worth. Whichever, Strephon does not emerge as the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan. Jennifer Lee Kosh as Phyllis, however, ultimately succeeds although she seems more suited to character roles than heroines...
...Lithgow and Mushabac have used this considerable talent to put over their own kind of Gilbert and Sullivan. Should this tampering with the master's work be afforded the same respect as the real thing? I'm not sure, but faced with the choice of liking it or lumping it, I like...