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...that, Romeo and Juliet is at times an exciting dance drama. The mass dueling scene between the Capulets (gorgeously decked out in Renaissance finery) and the peasant-supported Montagues (in modest, everyday clothes) is a marvel of rocketing energy and split-second timing. The carnival scenes give the Bolshoi's male dancers an opportunity to come bounding like handballs off the Met's stage in the high, open leaps that are their special glory...
...Testament." His reason: It includes "obviously Gnostic material," and apparently was compiled by a Gnostic who arbitrarily put the collection under the authority of the Apostle Thomas.-* Says Cullmann: "Our four canonical Gospels are the only ones on which we can rely. Again and again we must marvel at the fact that from the large number of primitive Christian writings only those were accepted as canonical which really came from the oldest time and which were free from heretical tendencies...
...four years since Nikita Khrushchev, that gregarious, loquacious and energetic fellow, took command in Russia, the world has never ceased to marvel at the difference in temperament between him and the grim, patient, secretive Joseph Stalin. To some nervous Western leaders, Nikita's engaging expansiveness even seemed to make him the more dangerous foe. Yet last week impulsive Nikita Khrushchev made precisely the same kind of crucial error in judgment that dogged the career of Stalin...
Reading the Signs. Despite the $1 billion which the U.S. has pumped into the Spanish economy since 1951, Spain, by a marvel of mismanagement, is in serious economic straits. In two years, the cost of living has jumped 40%, and prices are still rising. Spanish gold reserves are down to a skimpy $57 million; dollar reserves are virtually exhausted. And despite an official ban on the existence of any political party except Franco's decrepit Falange, Spain abounds in opposition groups. Well known to Franco's police, they range from a clutch of monarchist factions to syndicalists...
...marvel is that this pride of cinema lions could be confined in one cage without roaring each other down. Director Mann has obviously cracked the whip, but some of the credit also belongs to Author Rattigan, whose script is the very model of a lion act-the exits and entrances precisely timed, the terrors tactfully spaced, the total effect not seriously disturbing but guaranteed to make the customers forget their troubles in the simple animal pleasure of watching someone else...