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Raymond plays Christy Mahon, the dreamy wanderer whose bloody tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs...
That's for me, automation! Please order lor this parish the following automatic machines: One sermon writer and preacher, one acolyte trainer, one paperwork machine with built-in duplicator, one parish caller, one sinner converter, one confession hearer and consultant. Both my curate and I are fed up with being human beings in a 70-hour week...
...thin gauze of mockery over the entire apparatus. This technique, though well handled, fails to disguise the essential fatuity of his conception, for though the play is witty in spots it could never hold an audience past the first couple of pages. Mr. Cole presumes that the reader (or hearer) is interested in the results of his philosophical speculations--a presumption which, in this case, is over-weening to say the least...
...major feature of the current quest for culture is a desire, heavy with overtones of both social snobbery and cultural inferiority, to "understand" what art is all about. Courses telling a person how to look at a piece of art or records explaining what it is that the hearer is hearing continue to attract large audiences and fat profits. "I want to learn to appreciate art," is a common pronouncement of anxious masses fearful whether they are not "complete" persons until they do. It is such a context that gives so great importance to the methods and approach...
...financial ring of their concern is very hollow. They insult the intelligence of the public when they believe people do not see the big dollar sign through the sham of their propaganda." Wild Oklahoma broncos would not drag the name of the "one group" from Dr. Phelps, but no hearer doubted that he meant the American College of Surgeons, which, in its campaign for higher standards of surgery, has vastly increased the surgeon's jurisdiction as against the G.P.'s. ¶ Medical care in general costs too much, said Dr. Francis D. Moore, surgeon in chief of Boston...