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...Coming. These were fragments from A Song for the Dance of Death, by the late Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode, performed on CBS's religious series, Lamp Unto My Feet. The program's host hailed Ghelderode as a sort of dark messiah of the implied positive, whose generally malevolent characters actually yearn steadily for God. Other critics have said that in this century of despair, no more despairing voice-they variously compare it to lonesco's and even Brecht's-has rolled through the black caverns of the absurd...
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Examples from the work of the late Belgian playwright Michel de Gheledrode...
...orator demanded death for the leaders of the Fourth Republic, repeating for De Gaulle's benefit: "Mon general, we must kill all those asses." Nodded De Gaulle: "A vast program.'' After his election, when the President decided to fire some balky Cabinet ministers, Premier Michel Debre pointed out the hardships they would face when they returned to ordinary life. "Come, come," interrupted De Gaulle. "They'll always find a spot for themselves." After all, he explained after a pause, "they've been ministers of De Gaulle...
...Remington had already lined up new jobs for 80% of the men they were laying off. Nonetheless, news of the firings provoked a storm of resentment; at the G.M. Frigidaire plant, Catholic and Communist unions joined in a protest demonstration. More ominous yet, French Minister of Industry Michel Maurice-Bokanowski hustled to the unions' support, thundering: "In the future, new foreign investment programs, particularly from U.S. firms, must be examined with greatest care." In fact. Bokanowski was unlikely to do anything more than fume: he is one of the most pro-U.S. members of De Gaulle...
SENSATIONNEL, JIM BEATTY ! read a six-column headline in Paris' L'Aurore, after Beatty sped 3,000 meters over a muddy track in 7 min. 54.2 sec.-just 5 sec. off Michel Jazy's world record. FANTASTIC ! echoed Britain's Daily Herald, when Beatty ran the mile in 3 min. 56.5 sec. over a notoriously slow track at White City stadium-pulling four other competitors over the finish in less than four minutes. Moving up to a longer distance at Turku, Finland, Beatty then ran the 5,000 meters in 13 min. 45 sec., beating...