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...PEACE-MONGER." I HOPE THIS WILL NOT OFFEND...
...with a mission; its imperatives are not to be denied. He calls himself a "watchdog on government" and says that he was "brought up with a sense of duty and a sense of outrage." He insists that the drinking or leching capers of public men do not offend him "until they affect the public business...
...Paul, too, has come in for rehabilitation. His admonitions to the women of Corinth may have merely been sound advice: Corinth was a mixed community of Jew and Gentile Christians, and Paul probably feared that the more liberated Greek women would offend the Jews if they did not wear veils or spoke up too loudly during services. Jewish Theologian Richard L. Rubenstein, in a new book, My Brother Paul, admits that Paul's theology is pointedly masculine for much of its course, but sees a feminine image in Paul's vision of the "restoration of all things...
...connected with the production, and most of them must have seen it before because they made no effort to react to what was happening onstage. At these Thursday evening performances it's best to keep your month shut during intermission because the critical comment you make is bound to offend the person who sewed the gold buttons on such-and-such's jacket. But as a courtesy to those new to the production these initiates might try to applaud and laugh it up more convincingly. When you laugh alone the Loeb can be lonely...
...Rarely has so much conceit, commercial cynicism, bad taste, musical ignorance and all-round incompetence been brought together within the grooves of a single LP. Written and arranged by Producer David Axelrod (Electric Prunes), conducted by the jazz world's Cannonball Adderley, the RCA Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there is numbingly dreary rhythm and somnolent guitar work. For connoisseurs of modesty, there is this blurb on the record jacket...