Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, Music Theater. Robert Q. Lewis and Sandra O'Neill star in Never on Sunday, a musical with the moral that even practitioners of the world's oldest profession must have...
After the encyclical was published, most of the enthusiasm for it came from Roman Catholic bishops, who are bound by special ties of loyalty to the Pope. Prompted by an urgent request from Rome for moral support,* the hierarchy of the U.S. issued a collective statement that called on "our priests and people to receive with sincerity what he has taught, to study it carefully, and to form their consciences in its light." At least a few prelates were openly disappointed. Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, who had tried to keep the Pope from issuing the encyclical, said...
...reasons, to do evil so that good may follow therefrom, even when the intention is to safeguard or promote individual, family or social well-being." Paul also cites what he considers the dangers that will stem from widespread use of contraception: an increase in conjugal infidelity, a lowering of moral standards, the loss of respect for women, and finally, the possibility that "public authorities who take no heed of moral exigencies" could make birth limitation compulsory...
...also true of James Keach's Achilles, a psychopathic narcissistic Hell's Angel type, quickly uninteresting once the gag wears off. A more original job of reinterpretation is Schmidt's casting of Raymond Singer as the venemous fool Thersites, a character at once completely repellent yet perhaps the only moral person in the play. Singer is young and attractive, and therein lies the original job of reinterpretation. But again after awhile, the novelty of Thersites as a Caliban-cum-Puck wears thin as we desire something more substantial...
...smaller parts, Ronald Hunter as Hector and Louis Plante as Ajax were excellent, attempting successfully to take characters whom audiences associate with moral and physical arche-types and make them something quite different. Arthur Friedman didn't look a day older than he did playing Aufidius in a recent Loeb Coriolanus and consequently didn't convince me he was senile old Nestor for a minute...