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...hadn't become a writer he might have made a good bishop, "politically liberal, theologically and liturgically conservative." He adds ruefully that he might also have been intolerant. Feeling that all men were symbolically present at Golgotha on Good Friday, he imagines himself as a Hellenized Jew who asks, "Why can't authorities execute criminals humanely and in private by giving them hemlock, as they did with Socrates...
...gentleman is recalled by a classmate to have been a Jew who dressed up in preppy clothes and "snuck" into a Final Club, from which exalted position he was constantly threatened with exposure by old high school friends. Now he reports he's a member of the John Birch Society and believes in Karma and reincarnation. Another hopes to send his sons to Harvard and therefore calls himself an optimist, except for his belief that overpopulation will destroy the world before the year 2000. One appears to have achieved reincarnation in this life, being cross-referenced as both Joseph...
...Shylock, Miller has Laurence Olivier-at 62, performing the role for the first time in his career. In keeping with the period setting, Olivier does away with the hooked nose, greasy locks and biblical rantings that have served stage Shylocks down through the centuries. His is a Jew who has come out of the ghetto and into his own, proving that you can teach an old dog nouveau tricks...
...dignity falls away completely and he lapses offstage into a piercing primeval wail of lamentation. Disappointingly to some, this is as near as Olivier comes in this characterization to performing at full classical pitch. Nor does he modulate to softer emotions. He tears angrily through the "Hath not a Jew eyes" speech, from which most Shylocks wring the last drop of pathos...
...average Protestant, Jew or other non-Catholic, the most perplexing ecumenical problem is a personal one: what if he or she should decide to marry a Roman Catholic? Many a non-Catholic who wants to marry a Catholic has found himself faced with two difficult demands: that he must promise to raise any children as Catholics, and that the marriage must take place before a Catholic priest. Last week, in a 2,400-word instruction, Pope Paul VI removed the promise requirement entirely for the non-Catholic partner and ruled that local bishops may henceforth grant dispensations from a Catholic...