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...Martha believable. They toy with their guests (a social-climbing George Segal and a weak-stomached Sandy Dennis). They toy with each other. And Albee toys faciley with the language and all-too-transparent psychological complexities. The intensity ultimately becomes too gimmicky, but the film is still a jolter, and depressing...
...though, Joe trotted onto the diamond in the canary-and-green uniform he wears for his new job as vice president and batting coach of the rival Oakland Athletics. "It's not the same " said DiMag, taking a look around the recently renovated stadium. True enough, as the Jolter spent the rest of the afternoon back in the visiting dugout watching the A's hand a 6-3 drubbing to the team he once led to nine world championships...
Back home at Smith College, President William Allan Neilson found his mail doubled over night. The extra letters were from alumnae, begging him to drop Jolter Barnes...
From the clergy came a wry farrago. Dr. Milo Hudson Gates at the Chapel of the Intercession called Jolter Barnes a smart-Alec. Dr. Lyman P. Powell at St. Margaret's remarked that Jolter Barnes confused front page publicity with ordered knowledge. Rabbi Nathan Krass at Temple Emanuel contended: "Science enhances the glory of God." Cardinal Hayes at St. Patrick's Cathedral listed a score of great men in biology, anthropology, astronomy, surgery, pathology, who have been Catholic, religious...
...Fosdick ignored Jolter Barnes's invitation to make up a new God. Said he: "The foremost religious minds are becoming more scientific, and the foremost scientific minds are becoming more religious. It is the little minds in both camps that cause the trouble...