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...Bandit Who Went Out into the Cold" [Dec. 6] does journalism an injustice by creating an antihero. "D.B. Cooper," the parachuting skyjacker, prints out as a courageous, daring individual. Let us pray that in the next instance God is the copilot and no lives are lost, and let us treat the recent case for what it was: a serious crime. As a commercial airline pilot, I feel my chances of being hijacked are enhanced by such reporting...
...every Passover, Jews of the Diaspora promised one another: "Next year in Jerusalem." Even for unreligious Israelis, of whom there are many, Jerusalem possesses a certain mystique because, in Israeli hands, it represents the continuity and justification of Jewish history. "I never go to the Wailing Wall to pray," admits one young secular Jerusalemite. "But I go often to the Wall...
...Tooze warned: "The shadow of the saloon is lengthening over Evanston. Soon our streets will be filled with drunks. Mrs. Mary Alice Nelson, a sympathetic teetotaler, pleaded: "Preserve our city, our beautiful city, so my grandchildren will have a clean place to live." The W.C.T.U. has organized groups to pray for a dry Evanston...
...excellent foppery of the world...") is shortened and presented as part of a dialogue between Edmund and his brother. Jack McGowran's Fool is more than competent but too clearly the sage unrecognized. And, incomprehensibly, Brook leaves out two of the best lines in the play, Lear's dying "Pray you undo this button," and Kent's "Break, heart; I prithee break," after his king's death...
...effect is totally lost. When Lear sees that Cordelia (Annelise Gabold), his sole loving daughter, is dead, he utters the fivefold "Never" that some regard as the greatest single line in English drama. But in the film, he does not fumble at his throat and go on to say "Pray you, undo this button," thus depriving the act of tragic purgation and vertiginous descent from regal magnificence to the pitiable humanity of the commonplace...