Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FELDMAN Champaign, Ill...
...Appointed Bishop William E. Cousins of Peoria, Ill. archbishop of Milwaukee to replace Archbishop Albert G. Meyer, who was transferred to Chicago (TIME. Oct. 6) to succeed the late Samuel Cardinal Stritch. Milwaukee's new archbishop, 56, a native Chicagoan, was auxiliary to Cardinal Stritch from 1949 until...
Taken as a theater piece, J.B. has an often stunning theatricality, notably in the first half. The spoken verse is sometimes sharp and eloquent. The circus setting, in Boris Aronson's graphically somber set, enhances both the Biblical immensities and the modern-day horror. The bearers of ill tidings to J.B.-liquored-up soldiers, flashbulb photographers, raincoated police-are peculiarly scarifying. Moreover, J.B.'s story is varied, heightened, salted, glossed by the exchanges between the Zuss of Raymond Massey and-the play's top performance-the Nickles of Christopher Plummer...
...once he lies on the ground crying out why, the problem arises of giving utterance the effect of action. J.B.'s plight smacks, in dramatic terms, of the kind of situation-"in which there is everything to be endured, nothing to be done"-that Matthew Arnold held ill-fitted for poetic narrative...
...WOMEN, by Alberto Moravia. For once, Italy's best writer seems to say that sex is not the most urgent business of mankind. His heroines (or victims) are a widowed mother and her daughter trying to find a quiet place to sit out the war. They are ill-used in turn by fellow countrymen so rude and crude that only a fellow Italian would dare describe them. Finally they return to Rome with wounds deeper than those they thought to escape...