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...immediately comes upon the wreckage of World War II. A few blocks across from Checkpoint Charlie is Akademieplatz, a mute monument to the East Berlin failure to reconstruct. Grass is pushing its way through the paving of a square, surrounded by once majestic marble Academy buildings with Corinthian columns. Grotesquely shattered marble figures now lie around the base of the buildings, crumbled columns are scattered on the ground, and the burned and sagging roof has rotted to reveal only its steel skeleton and the wreckage inside...
...else, he works in his studio on a massive statue of God. Well, not quite all else. He takes time out to seduce his son's girl friend. Then the family doctor has a go at the boy's next girl, who happens to be a deaf-mute. She runs off and is killed. Despite head-scratching reviews, the play is running strong. It will in all likelihood make its way to the U.S., where audiences can decide for themselves if God is really the father...
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Sal Mineo, Jo Van Fleet and Albert Dekker in a drama about a deaf-mute apprentice cabinetmaker who is framed for the murder of his boss...
...Pope Paul's first encyclical has been awaited with eager and hopeful expectancy, not only by Roman Catholics but by millions of non-Catholics who have rejoiced at the manifest liberation and revivification of worldwide Roman Catholicism during the "Johannine era." It would serve no useful purpose to mute the fact that the document, released at long last, stirs non-Catholics with dismay and, doubtlessly, "progressive" Catholics with deep if unuttered disappointment. One searches vainly for a single fresh, forward-looking declaration. Even the Pope's offer "to intervene" in the disputes between contending peoples is hardly novel...
Mama Meg comes to the rescue in a high declamatory style that would send a deaf-mute up the wall. Untoppable and unstoppable in a slanging natch, she routs the foxy old camp director and triumphantly bears Joseph off, clucking: "Did your mother ever let you down? Will you please learn to put your last buck down on this baby...