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...start of the season. First Baseman Cepeda is batting .330, leads the National League in hits (with 77), ranks second in home runs (with 15) and runs batted in (with 55). The other Latins are almost as impressive. In his second year up, Puerto Rico's Jose Pagan ranks among the league's sharpest shortstops. Pitcher Juan Marichal, from the Dominican Republic, already has eight victories to his credit...
This musical comedy is set in pagan Rome and is lewdly adapted from the plays of Plautus, who should really have been named Sub-Plautus. He was a genius at inventing endless slapsticky plot complications. The story is that Pseudolus (Zero Mostel), a slave, will be granted his freedom if he can secure as his master's bride a dumb blonde virgin (Preshy Marker) who has completed her basic training as a courtesan. After a dilatory start, George Abbott's pell-mell direction crosscuts from the chaste to the chase. Pseudolus must foil all the males...
...Bishop of Prague, who was massacred in 997 while on missionary expedition among the pagan Prussians. His body was ransomed by the Polish duke, Boleslaw the Brave, and buried in Gniezno. Adalbert was canonized about...
...understood that bear better than Marx, who filled his Tribune articles with historical evidence of the insatiable Russian appetite for power. "More than eight centuries ago," wrote Correspondent Marx, "Sviataslaff, the yet Pagan Grand Duke of Russia, declared in an assembly of his Boyards [noblemen] that 'not only Bulgaria, but the Greek Empire in Europe, together with Bohemia and Hungary, ought to undergo the rule of Russia.' " Marx also quoted Derzhavin, poet laureate to Russian Empress Catherine II (1729-96): "Of what use are allies to thee, O Russian? Stride forth, and thine is the whole world...
...Occasionally his characters are too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols have been known to multiply like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger is the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art. From the caves of Altamira to the Apollo Belvedere, pagan art looked outward and celebrated man. From the cathedral of Chartres to the music of Bach, religious art looked upward and glorified God. Modern art looks inward, contemplating the artist's ego, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Williams has often come close to drowning in introspection...