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...Broadway play) are far more concerned with the stuff that life is made of, and the courage and dignity that man can summon from within himself when the only logical course seems to be to lie down and die. From the moment the refugees enter their hideaway, and Papa Frank announces the painful conditions of their survival-no daytime movement, speech or even use of the w.c. -the cramped loft thrums with a threat as foreboding from within as from without. Young Anne wakes from a nightmare with terrified screams; greedy old Van Daan. whose wife and teen...
...ambitious, two-part production of For Whom the Bell Tolls, every member of the cast had to read Ernest Hemingway's 472-page novel about the Spanish Civil War. Frankenheimer's request helps explain why the show was a disappointment. It reflected a reverence for Papa Hemingway's prose, an unfortunate reliance on words, phrases and tricks of speech that were downright embarrassing heard out loud on TV. Examples : the stilted, literally translated phraseology that Hemingway used to suggest Spanish ("What passes with you?" "How are you called?") and the mountainside love scene ("Oh, I die each...
Proud at becoming a grandfather for the first time, Cleveland Pediatrician Benjamin (Baby and Child Care) Spock, 55, noted that Daniel Wood Spock (8 Ibs. 5 oz.) has the long-boned family heels, shipped off to the papa, Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...
More sharp words flared last week from Karl Barth's son, Dr. Marcus Barth, 43, of the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty. The younger Barth denounced U.S. Sunday schools for shunning reality with syrupy sermons that "Mama loves me. Papa loves me, teacher loves me, God loves me. This develops self-centered young egoists." The schools even launder Bible stories so that "Egyptians never drowned, John the Baptist was not beheaded." Urged Barth: "Even eight-year-olds can know that all the world is not rosy . . . Sunday schools should be ahead of the development...
...Every time me 'member Charlie Water come in my eye. When me 'member them moonshine nights, Water come in my eye. Now me pickney*come born so pretty, And no papa for see, Charlie sail to England and left me- Water come...