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Setting off on a tour of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia to visit installations of the Pious Society of St. James the Apostle (which he founded in 1958), Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, 68, felt the twinges of age and chronic asthma. "I don't want to go," he confessed, "but just as St. Paul stung his flesh, and just as President Kennedy stung his flesh, so I must sting mine to fight the enemies of morality...
...Delphic priestess, their speech becomes intelligible, and they show us "just how modern the old bard really was." At least I think their interpretation follows certain simple but "classic" lines: Euripides mocks the old religious motifs that Aeschylus so deeply felt, ergo he was an atheist rebelling against the pious establishment. The Loeb production seems to follow this interpretation or, shall I say, to adopt it suddenly and without warning near the end of the play when the speech of the Dioscuroi and one reference to prayer are played for laughs. They probably should be, to a certain extent...
...Phrases. Lyndon would love to trademark the phrase "civil rights"-it has a fine, pious ring, and anyone who says he is against "civil rights" is obviously an extremist. Goldwater, of course, hopes to win in the Democratic South not because he is against "civil rights" but because he is for "states' rights." Moreover, he figures to get votes outside the South because of the so-called "white backlash"-an unfortunate phrase that implies that anyone who does not go all the way with the Negro revolution, including its excesses and extremism, is some sort of Simon Legree with...
...wide range, which he only rarely pushes to stridency. His classical diction is close to flawless (including every last y-sound in words like 'dew' and 'suit'), and he speaks with an unusual feeling for the musicality of the lines. In fact, he shows, in the excerpts from the "pious chanson" about Jephthah's daughter, that he has a splendid singing voice. And his apostrophe to Man is itself a beautifully modulated song...
...spirit of the earliest Commencement days, as of the early College, was largely chaparoned by theology--the presence of a formidable portion of the local clergy caused those first occasions to be rather pious and somber. But the joyous aspects of graduation increased steadily and by the end of the seventeenth century, commencement had become the main spectacle of New England...