Word: gospels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hitchcock's Lifeboat today at 7:30; Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Sunday...
...chastisement-the will to learn." The speaker is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a former lieutenant of Martin Luther King, oratorical spellbinder and director of Chicago-based Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), a community development organization founded to help the urban poor. Jackson has been preaching a new gospel of self-discipline to replace self-pity among black high school youths. "We keep saying that Johnny doesn't read because he's deprived, hungry and discriminated against," says Jackson. "One of the reasons Johnny does not read well is that Johnny doesn't practice reading...
...choreography of Godspell embodies the enthusiasm of the newly converted; most dance numbers reflect the influence of gospel rhythms, with hand-clapping and swaying bodies, and the exuberant spontaneity of exercise. The best number, however, is the soft shoe duet "All for the Best", which pits Jesus against Judas (David Alpert) for the first time...
Since faith in our age must be entertaining, it wears in Godspell all the trappings of musical farce, with the comic acting-out of Christian parables alternating with a lively rock and gospel-inspired score. The resultant blend is hardly the ultimate in sophistication--in this version of the Christian myth, the plot is stylized and the characterizations, save for Jesus, nearly non-existent...
Godspell. The Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society tackles the Gospel according to St. Mather. At the Agassiz, March 11-13, 18-20 and 25-27, at 8 p.m. Tickets $3.50 and $3, with $1 student discount...