Word: passionately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Die (French). A modern Passion that makes one of the screen's most powerful religious statements in years...
Playwright Williams' instinct for the theatrical jugular makes even this mannikin play bleed greasepaint. Elia Kazan's direction is intense, Jo Mielziner's sets are broodily menacing, and Paul Bowles's mood music shimmers. But the only unfailing source of power and passion in the play is the bravura performance of Geraldine Page. Whether she is thrashing about in bed crying for her oxygen mask after a days-long vodka-and-goofball binge or clawing apart her hired paramour's tape-recorded blackmail scheme, Actress Page is just what the character she plays fears...
...Christians should shudder," stormed Pastor Duncan, "at the idea that the agony in the garden of our blessed Lord, one of the most awful events in his Passion, should be thus exploited . . . Where are we going to stop? Next thing will be our Lord on the cross with his last words in stereophonic sound. I have no objection to religious art, but when you begin having dolls . . . good...
...Eustace's lunacy revolved around the theological implications of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He would bribe maidservants with a guinea in order to investigate whether or not they had tails: discovery of a vestigial caudal appendage of course would help the Darwinian faction. His scientific passion caused his social ruin during the visit of a German grand duchess whose family was reputed to be fitted with a Darwinian decoration...
Bishop Pike (ABC, 12 noon-12:30 p.m.). Christ in Jeans, BBC's modern-dress filmed Passion play that roused British TViewers last year (TIME, April 14). Christ wears denims, the Virgin Mary looks like anybody...