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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deafen the audience. Cudgel it severely about the ears with a blunt amplifying instrument. A hard-rock Modcom musical gives a theatergoer an acoustic third degree. His eardrums are refunded on the sidewalk. However, the test of a good musical score remains unvarying: not whether one can hum the songs but whether one can tell them apart. Hair has a beguilingly individuated score; Salvation does...
...with the audience. This takes a little effort, but it is well worth the time wasted. With no plot, the playgoer might get bored. This way he cranes his neck every which way and wonders if he is going to be kissed, prodded, or punched. It's a good way to smell an actor, too, and the odor isn't always as appealing...
Apart from its manifold defects, Salvation, like all Modcom products, trades on the residual puritanism behind its ostensibly anti-puritan outlook. A people at ease with sexuality, and casually and thoroughly iconoclastic, would not pay good money to see an inept affirmation of a puerile paganism...
...Cain? Where was the Garden of Eden? What is the patience of Job? Many teen-agers cannot answer such questions-and for a good reason: since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 outlawed devotional Bible reading in public schools, few U.S. school systems have offered Biblical studies of any kind. Justice Tom C. Clark's majority opinion in the Supreme Court decision made a point of recommending that the Bible should still be studied for its "literary and historic qualities," but that option is rarely exercised. Some diehard school districts in a few states still defy the court...
...Knows Best), as Marcus Welby, M.D. Welby is an old-fashioned general practitioner, but Executive Producer David Victor plays him off against what he calls a "very 'now' young assistant" (James Brolin) who makes house calls on a 650-c.c. motorcycle. The first episode was about as good as U.S. soap opera ever gets: Can the "now" junior G.P., who mistakenly diagnoses a pretty young schoolteacher's terminal brain tumor as a psychosomatic "sex hang-up," make his peace with her before she dies...