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...consistent throughout and was even given the play's last, defiant line. Ed Begley was brilliant as the cranky iconoclast who stuck to his principles in the face of overwhelming Christian charity and forgiveness on the part of his fellow men, while Joe Maross made a believable young preacher who was both uncertain of and delighted by the results of prayer. The show was wittily produced and directed by George Roy Hill, an ex-pilot who wrote one of the best TV plays of 1953, My Brother's Keeper (TIME, March...
...such heaving, and shoving, such itching and shouldering to sit by women . . . such masking in their ears . . . such giving them pippins to pass the time: such playing at foot-saunt without cards: such tickling, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them home"-that a Puritan preacher, Thomas White, was moved to reason how "The cause of plagues is sin, if you look to it well: and the cause of sin are plays: therefore the cause of plagues are plays...
Many contemporary composers seem to be reaching for words to go with their music, and for religious themes. Barber's 20-minute work used as its text none of Kierkegaard's intricate philosophizing, but some simple and often beautiful prayers which Composer Barber culled from the preacher's writings. The work begins with plain chant, moves on to orchestral fortissimos. a restrained soprano solo, joyous choral passages and occasional Dies Irae trumpet blasts. But the overall effect is quiet, without either the sweetness or the grandeur expected of religious music. It is clean rather than austere...
Buttrick's appointment to head the committee was indicated two years ago when Paul H. Buck, then Provost of the University, completed an extensive study of PBH and its activities. At the time, shortly after the retirement of Dean Sperry as Chairman of the Board of Preacher's, Buck stated that Sperry's successor would be expected to head the Brooks House group...
...Bullet Is Waiting (Welsch; Columbia). In old-fashioned movies, when an innocent girl was trapped with two desperate men in a cabin miles from anywhere, the bad guy made his grab and wound up on a slab, while the good guy took the lady to the preacher. But times have changed. In this picture, for instance the cabin serves as a sort of alchemical vessel in which all the characters are essentially transformed. As a matter of fact after sitting in that cabin for about 85 minutes the moviegoer may never be the same again, either...