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...outs. It is her husband. Bop Phillips played by Richard Mulligan, and his wife, Fiona Foster played by Bernice Massi, who are having all the fun. Frantic to avoid discovery of their adultery, Fiona and Bob involve the Detweilers to explain away nights spent on the town. Meek Mary and wiggy William Detweiler tiptoe into the confusion, unaware that they are being used as excuses by the lovers. Sin is fun, and in the end Teresa and Frank discover the truth, but not before the cuckoos have had time to do quite a bit of fluttering...
...Superstar reacts to the notion of Christ as that willowy young man with the far-away look in his eyes, the meek but confident son of God who, disguised as Jesus, mild-mannered converter to a great Middle-Eastern religion, preaches a never-ending sermon for Love, God, and the Eternal Life. Webber and Rice fight the traditional characterization by being anti-traditional: they put Jesus (rather uncertainly) into the role of a mass-culture hero, make Judas a sort of cautious road-manager, cast Mary Magdalene as a groupie in love with Christ, and Simon Zelotes as a politico...
...repetitive, heartbreaking letters, and perhaps the easiest entry for the white student into George Jackson's world. Here Jackson is wrestling with his parents, trying to make them understand his evolving convictions, to make them see through the pretence of white capitalist society, of the Christian lie of forbearance, meek sufferance of wrongs, the conditioning that has led them to shift the blame for the social and economic failure not on the white capitalist society that has rejected them but upon themselves. It is as if no step in the development of his consciousness were worth taking unless his parents...
...meek and he is mild...
Artists come off differently under photographic inspection. Tenor Jon Vickers is a powerful stage actor, but he seems meek and calculated in Carmen and I Pagliacci. Raina Kabaivanska, a bland personality at the Met, emerges as a film actress of subtlety and range. Best of all is the Hamburg Opera's leading lady, American Arlene Saunders, who illuminates her roles with humor, and warm, emotional singing...