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...virtues of this show well outweigh its faults. The costumes, designed by Tony Duquette and Adrian, and Oliver Smith's sets combine with lighting by Feder and choreography by Hanya Holm to produce several extremely effective scenes. In a way, it's a case of something being so far Out that it's In: often, one is repelled by large amounts of money spent on garish costuming and lavish sets, but producers Lerner, Loewe, and Moss Hart have obviously spent so much money, and spent it so well, that the result is a pleasure...
Westerns and private-eye shows offer escape into a world where men are men and women know their place. But situation comedies-which, this season, seem destined to outweigh saddle and sleuth operas-have a far more obscure and disturbing appeal. In their denatured apotheosis of Booth Tarkington and Clarence
...sibling rivalry of the Christian family. Protestants and Catholics often carp at each other more like brothers and sisters than brethren in Christ. This kind of religious infighting in which slights outweigh insights has no appeal to Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel, professor of ecclesiology* at Maryland's Woodstock College. In the current issue of The Catholic World, Father Weigel provides an equably tempered, coolly reasoned analysis of what he calls "The Protestant Stance Today." Conventional Protestants who have given the matter little thought may be somewhat surprised at Father Weigel's spadework in the intellectual subsoil...
...many excellences of this production far outweigh its few defects. A script that might have become disjointed and confusing on stage has been made coherent and exciting entertainment. And the girls are all very pretty...
...Communists get an innocent assist from a fact of international life: in sensitive, prideful nations the cost in political irritation over foreign bases can come to outweigh the military advantage. In the wake of the Japanese rioting over the U.S. Security Treaty (which guarantees U.S. bases for a minimum of ten years), India's Prime Minister Nehru last week denounced foreign bases as an "irritating symbol of foreign power and a reminder of war." Columnist Walter Lippmann, citing Japan, held that the forward-base system had become "increasingly unworkable" since the Soviets developed a nuclear striking force. "There...