Word: righteous
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...find. As the crippled hero he acts on his knees better than most young operatic hopefuls do on their feet, and he has a booming bass-baritone voice. Wilma Shakesnider has just the right blend of vibrant lyricism and common-sense demeanor to make Serena an appropriately righteous foil to Bess. Larry Marshall's Sportin' Life could use a touch more evil but is admirable in his dandified elusiveness. The depth of this cast is suggested by the presence of the veteran contralto Carol Brice, a regular on the concert scene since the 1940s, in the minor role...
...most compelling. But religion, with its ancient, emotional connotations, shows up in these wars like a tribal ghost of Hamlet's father, urging revenge. Religion, especially when it blends with the secular religion of nationalism, fetches back to timeless grievances and can find in them that nasty, righteous "Gott mil Uns" that wants no truck with the enterprise of peace - which in this world is always temporal and temporary...
...death--even when that death is theoretically another man's. When the British mistake him for the minister, whom they plan to hang as an example to town rebels, Dudgeon declines to correct their mistake. Meanwhile, Anderson, realizing his own ministerial garb cloaks a worldy temperament that glories in righteous warfare, has scurried off to rally the colonists. As captain of the local militia, he triumphantly rescues Dudgeon from the gallows and offers the "devil's disciple" his old role as spiritual guide for the town's now-revolutionary populace. After nearly exchanging places in death, the two protagonists...
Bette Henritze once more plays Paulina, who takes guff from nobody. She finds a good balance between righteous indignation and humor, and rises to the task of becoming a sort of female Prospero, guiding the course of events. Miss Henritze's voice does not have as wide a pitch range as one would like, but she uses what she has with impressive skill. William Larsen also repeats as her husband Antigonus, who is pursued and eaten by a (wisely stylized) bear...
...Francisco Sun-Reporter (circ. 9,600) has been published for 29 years by Carl ton Goodlett, 61, a physician who won the $4,000 downpayment for the weekly in a poker game. Since then it has ranked as one black paper whose righteous anger never falters. The president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, Goodlett describes himself as "an irritant. A pain. But to those who will listen, I'm a catalytic agent for change, a positive force for the reduction of political violence and economic racism in America." His position of not-so-chic radical makes...