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...murder, treason, multiple incest and matricide, and blinds his father-after which he is crucified in precise imitation of Christ. London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem at the Old Vic and held their noses. Whereupon Osborne, 36, flipped his Angry Aging Man's lid, firing off telegrams to the London papers. Osborne declared an end to his "gentleman's agreement to ignore puny theater critics as bourgeois conventions. After ten years, it is now war, open and frontal war, that will be as public as I and other men of earned reputation have...
...with the people, their frustrations and their fulfillment," said one young priest. "The problem is vital, not only for the church in Spain but for Spain itself. Authoritarian governments do not solve problems. They merely postpone them." And what will happen if the church continues its old course? "The lid may blow off and carry the scandal sky-high...
Last week Barcelona's aging (76) Archbishop Gregorio Modrego Casáus was doing his best to keep the lid on. Calling all publicity "harmful," he appealed to the press to forgo any further news or comment on the police attack; he also sent a bland message to his parish priests, to be read at Sunday Masses. Since the message virtually ignored the question of police brutality to clergymen, many priests added a few choice words of their own at the end. "One of our newspapers' slogans," snapped Father Narciso Saguer Vilar of San Ildefonso's Church...
With an outburst of base hits, the Harvard baseball team shouldered its way past Columbia 10-9 on Friday, but Army's Mac Hayes slapped the lid back on the Crimson offense the next day, pitching the Cadets...
...completed three at once. Pittsburgh's famous Golden Triangle will double its office space in the next 18 months, and demand is so strong that Builder John Galbreath has just lifted his plans for a new U.S. Steel office from 50 to 65 stories. Overbuilding has put a lid on further expansion in several cities including Denver, Akron, Kansas City and Dallas, but the proliferation of paper work and the economy's long expansion still feed demand elsewhere...