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GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. All the world's a college campus, and practically every philosophy is out in the pillory in this bizarre novel about a boy who aspires to become the messiah of a new religion...
Forrester confesses that she accepted the role in Julius Caesar because Handel is a special favorite. Her first date with her husband-to-be followed a performance of Handel's Messiah in which she was one of the soloists. Says she: "Ever since, Whenever we hear the Messiah we say, 'Listen-they're playing our song...
...More a Messiah. Up against Judge Cannon's immovability came Father Groppi, who is the assistant pastor of St. Boniface's, a church with an almost all-Negro congregation in the heart of the city's "Inner Core," or black ghetto. The priest has made the Negro's problems his own; he participated in last year's famous Selma march and made frequent trips to Mississippi to carry food, books and clothing to civil rights workers. Before the picketing of Judge Cannon's home, he had become well known in Milwaukee-and earned...
...Negro youths around St. Boniface's, Groppi is more a messiah than a leader. To be even closer to them, the priest moved last July from his rectory to Freedom House, a residence and office he set up for the youth council. So "totally immersed" in the Negro's problems is he, says his superior, St. Boniface's Pastor Eugene Bleidorn, that Father Groppi is "a Negro with white skin." Adds Groppi himself: "I will picket with the Negro, I will go South with him, I will go to jail with him, and I will hang with...
Since then, they have put over such unlikely packages as a Christmas series of four different versions of Handel's Messiah, a "Japan Week" featuring the Toho String Orchestra (with Japanese buffet served at intermissions) and a satiric program of baroque music, P.D.Q. Bach (TIME, Jan. 7), which was so successful that it came back twice to full houses, P.D.Q...