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Sweat & Lust. "We, as human beings, are all miserable persons, heartless, small, insignificant," wrote Kazantzakis in his personal credo, The Saviors of God. "But within us a superior essence drives us ruthlessly upward. From within this human mire divine songs have welled up, great ideas, violent loves, an unsleeping assault full of mystery...
...classes--especially tenant farmers and sharecroppers--are apathetic about civil rights and likely to remain so. They are hungry and in need, and getting them out of the South is a service to them. Few of them want to suffer in the name of a cause, and only a heartless ideologue would ask them...
...only a heartless old midwife could look unsympathetically at Pat Fay's struggles as Maggie the Cat. She took on the part a week ago--a situation comparable to your kid brother's meeting Khrushchev at the Summit. Admit it. Your kid brother couldn't end the Cold War. Miss Fay, however, very nearly brings off her role with eclat. As it is, she has enough poise and charm to cover up an occasional fluff or to make you forget the juicy lines she lets slip by from lack of rehearsal. One might also excuse her tedious movements and lack...
...fourth story, slightly out of line with the others, demonstrates the triumph of domestic virtue over heartless capitalism, spinning out the saga of a young couple who are wed secretly because his company forbids employees to marry until they have been on the payroll for three years. It will be dropped from the picture when Co-Producer Joe Levine (TIME, Feb. 24, 1961) releases it in the U.S. next July...
Fate, alas, gives the heroine the short end of that wishbone. Hounded by the heartless censors, her lover dies in a highway accident, surviving just long enough to reach a telephone and gasp into the mouthpiece-sure enough-those three little words. To the Kleenex corps, each one of them will be worth a bushel of Bermuda onions...