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...bespectacled owl, a turtle sporting a derby-play with words, con one another, and offer the only trenchant political satire to be found in the comics today. In Johnny Hart's B.C., indolent cavemen, sharpshooting anteaters and terrified ants make droll comments on the modern world. In Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, megacephalic, supersophisticated school tots show up their elders' ignorance. In Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey, a gawky, hapless buck private makes a hash of military life...
...scene, the three Magi ride toward Bethlehem through a night drenched in blue. Of the miracles performed by Christ, Stevens offers easy-to-picture faith healing rather than such tricky feats as loaves and fishes and water-walking. Then he lets his whole drama turn on the raising of Lazarus from the dead, a much-debated episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows...
...ringing of distant bells, the coming of Death, as Lazarus, the whining and howling of mourners and a premonitory dog are all techniques of mystery and horror de Ghelderode has used in other plays. They combine in Miss Jairus with a plot-skeleton which is parable. In the final act, on Easter, as Miss Jairus dies, the townfolk commemorate the Holy Day by taking the sorcerer to a hill outside the town and crucifying...
...progenitor? Christ can revive mouldy Lazarus, but who can raise the living from the grave? I wanted to feel, but had no emotions, and is sighed for thoughts and had no conceptions...
...stores (including 16 fashionable I. Magnin stores) will easily push the retailing giant's annual sales ($932 million in 1963) over the billion mark, give it needed strength on the West Coast. It is also another step toward a goal set earlier this year by Federated President Ralph Lazarus: to double sales within a decade...