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...analogy is imperfect. Origen was operating on a corpse. It is possible that modern society will not be ready for conversion until it has made the cultural corpse dangerously radio-active. Perhaps Western civilization has not yet reached the condition of Alexandria. Perhaps we are living in the last days of the Republic. Today we are not quite desperate. We are ready to have just one more fling at nationalism and egotism and secularism, one more bid to create paradise on earth by harnessing the atom. After we have blown ourselves to smithereens, then we will admit defeat and begin...
Troilus and Cressida (by William Shakespeare) has only once-and then as a Players Club frolic-been done on Broadway within living memory. Its neglect is easily explained: Troilus is a difficult as well as an imperfect play. Yet its neglect is scarcely warranted, for there is much that is special, fascinating, even fine about it, and much in its mood for a modern audience to respond to. With bitter and debunking cynicism, Shakespeare slashed in Troilus at the great fabric of the Trojan War, to rend its romance and heroism to tatters, to reduce its Homeric clang to verbosity...
Egypt and Iraq had withdrawn, would not be present to compete with their enemies. The Communist Chinese had pulled out in a fit of pique over an invitation to the Nationalists. Solemnly Avery Brundage, the International Olympic Committee's president, insisted that "in an imperfect world, if participation in sports is to be stopped every time the politicians violate the laws of humanity, there will never be any international contests." The Olympics, he argued, are above politics; the games must...
...question remains whether a permanent repertoire company can be maintained when the proper voices are, quite frankly, lacking. Unless outside singers are brought in, there are few operas that can be capably sung here. But whatever its future, the first production of the Opera Guild is a spirited, if imperfect, performance of one of music's great comic masterpieces...
...University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...