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Pleading Hardship. For most of those who serve, jury duty is a financial hardship. Even though the tightfisted parish of New Orleans, which does not pay jurors anything, is not typical, the juror in federal courts gets only $20 a day. In most state courts he may expect to earn less. Some companies continue to pay all or part of a man's salary while he serves, but they tend to get balky when the trial is protracted. In Millbury, Mass., the John Bath toolmaking company once insisted that an employee on jury duty report to work...
...price it had to pay for a greater episcopal presence in Hungary. What this presence means is a more visible church, hopeful of inspiring confidence, in a Communist country where other signs of the faith are rigidly limited. Religious education remains severely circumscribed, and even the appointment of parish priests is still subject to the ap proval of the government...
...performed Masses, marriages and funeral services without accepting the customary stipends, and converted his rectory into an orphanage. Although Mazzi's ecclesiastical superiors were cool to his worker-priest style, they could hardly complain. Membership in his parish increased from 100 to 2,500, and in 1957 he was able to finance the construction of a new and larger church...
Then there are the songs. "The Parish Boy's Progress" has nothing to sing about, but that has not stopped Composer-Lyricist Lionel Bart. Starveling orphans chant about Food, Glorious Food. Oliver asks Where Is Love? Fagin warbles, "Can a fellow be a villain all his life?" Well done? Indeed. Appropriate? In doubt. Putting trust in sounds and forms, Bart has obscured the message of "that great Christian," as Dostoevsky once called Dickens. The "demd horrid grind" is gone. In its place is solid, canny entertainment. Purists and sociologists will object as loudly as Christmas audiences will applaud...
Riot!--Some living theatre of sorts stopping here on its way to Off-Broadway. At the FIRST PARISH CHURCH, Harvard Square...