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Uncritical Leftism. The consistent radicalism of motive has frequently brought it into conflict with Methodism's leaders and has won it such scornful epithets as "a jester in the house of Wesley." When the magazine first denounced segregation, a group of Southern bishops demanded that it cease publication. One of those who came to its defense was the late Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who showed up at a meeting of the education board with several copies of motive under his arm. "I have read every word of these," thundered the best-known Methodist liberal...
...STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Kennedy Wit," a sentimental montage of J.F.K., pasted together with still photos, film clips and tapes by Jack Paar. His guest will be David Francis Powers, who served as confidant, friend and occasional court jester to the late President...
Flawless Flair. Director Lee, who joined the museum in 1952 as curator of Oriental art and took over the reins from Milliken in 1958, uses subtler but equally effective tactics. When a Velásquez portrayal of a court jester turned up for auction in London last year, gossips cast doubt on its authenticity, reserving their admiration for Rembrandt's Titus. Lee arranged to have the Velasquez secretly Xrayed, jetted to Madrid to compare it with other works by the Spanish master. When the hammer went down, Titus sold for $2.2 million; Lee walked away with a rare early...
Robert Egan, the jester who chaffs with Helen and the Countess, affects an implausibly insouciant air, but derives more humor from his quibbling lines than one would have thought modern audiences could appreciate. Guy Kuttner, in another comic role, spatters the stage with grunts and gutteral gibberish as he pretends to be translating some esoteric tongue; for all its lack of subtlety it's a funny...
...consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs when the hero cries and cries when the hero laughs-an alert, ironic, ever-present border guard to keep self-pity from invading pity...