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This holy and horrible Gothic tale cannot of course be understood as a story of real men and women in real situations...
...architects who planned this greatest of Gothic churches, the sculptors and stonemasons, wandering guildsmen and artisans of glass who labored on it for generations, are as anonymous as the men and women of the countryside who counted it their pious privilege to drag stones to the site. Last week the faithful of a far more individualistic time celebrated their work and the seven centuries between in a High Mass with 50 altar boys, vicars, priests, friars, bishops, archbishops and ten orders of nuns. Said Maurice Cardinal Feltin of Paris: "The cathedral has accomplished its mission over the years...
...Pledge (TIME, March 30, 1959). Inevitably, people will say they liked the book better. It was a thoughtful study of the police mind and the one thing that destroys it: human feeling. In the movie, on the other hand, thanks partly to Director Ladislao Vajda, Duerrenmatt's Gothic involutions have been pressed as flat as the celluloid they lie on. Even so, the film has an original (if somewhat perverted) air about it, and works up an uncommon amount of suspense...
Orders for the new series, through a record-of-the-month sort of operation known as Shakespeare Recording Society Inc. (4,000 members so far), are "twelve times what we expected," notes Partner Mantell. She once said: "After studying Greek, Gothic and Sanskrit, we were obviously unfitted for anything." Now she admits: "We apparently had a streak of business sense...
With the bands and the comics, the smoke and the noise, the old Gothic jazz orchestras will furnish the music, structure must have seemed very much like a convention hall. Yet these were not delegates, but only enthusiastically partisan students, who were more, removed than they liked to believe from all national affairs...