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...ranking progressive cardinals flew in from northern Europe and made some headlines. Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, 58, chief negotiator between the Vatican and Hungary over Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, reported that Mindszenty would leave his exile in the U.S. consulate if the Pope directly asked him to, but was determined to stay in Budapest until the government gave the church an ironclad guarantee of freedom from persecution. Konig also predicted a Vatican Council ruling on mixed Protestant-Catholic marriages and the formation of a senate of bishops to help the Pope govern the church after the council completes...
...Josef Cardinal Suenens, 59, the debonair and witty Archbishop of Malines-Brussels and primate of Belgium, had his hardest (and finest) moment at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he spent two days fielding questions from his Protestant hosts, including prestigious Theologian Paul Tillich. "The most difficult examination I've ever faced," he said. There and elsewhere, Suenens predicted that new medical research might call for new applications of the church's teaching on birth control. He also suggested that after the Vatican Council the church might take the first steps toward cooperation with Protestant and Orthodox...
...Josef Marx, his obos reed seemingly tucked between John L. Lewis eyebrows and a cropped white beard, looks very like a Rabellaisian mandarin one might see displayed (a la jade figurine) in the window of an ancient Chinese antique shoppe. Marx's very presence as a performer, and the natoriety of his unorthodox tone, had steeled many in the audience for an onslaught. As the first few notes burst from the bell of his oboe the remaining faces, already beginning to harden into that controlled boredom of the concert-goer's mask, registered something between discomfort and shock...
...Passion of Josef D. Paddy Chayefsky has changed butchers; his Josef Stalin is a Marty with fangs. It is Chayefsky's notion in this play that Stalin can best be understood as a brute with an unquenchable thirst for the Absolute. Beginning as a divinity student in a Tiflis Orthodox seminary, Stalin lost his belief in God. According to Chayefsky, Stalin was further desolated and left with a desperate sense of meaninglessness when his first wife died agonizingly. As a Bolshevik revolutionary, he found new meaning in life; in Lenin he found...
This tampering with history might be dramatically justified if it were amusing or ironic or revelatory, but Josef D. incessantly lectures and never electrifies. Chayefsky misdirects his own work, injecting group chorales and Brechtian-inspired political satire in which inane bourgeois messily cut their own throats onstage. Peter Falk's Stalin is a menacing thug with a will of granite, but Luther Adler's Lenin is too mellow and self-questioning for the single-minded intellectual doctrinaire who could be just as implacable as Stalin. To recreate the rationale of tyranny should not be to forget that...