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...Joseph Apie is the baby, and the truest, rawest talent of them all. The dudes on his block in Spanish Harlem have seen Apie on television and they think he is righteous because he is doing something honorable. "I want to be here till the cathedral is finished," he says. "I know the stone will be here for thousands of years. People will come and look and marvel. Sometimes I finish a job and I say 'Wow!' and I sing to the stone...
When he wrote The Hostage in 1958. Behan appealed to human kindness to make himself understood. The Hostage pulls off a rare dramatic teat: it's "political" without being heavy-handed, a message play that doesn't succumb to self-righteous moralizing. It takes place in a Dublin brothel where I.R.A. officers hold an eighteen-year-old British soldier hostage in reprisal for one of their own men who awaits hanging in a Belfast jail, Irish. The whorehouse-declaimed by society as a sinful place-is inhabited by a gang of cheerful, extremely humane eccentries who live by their...
Quoting the Bible to support religious groups' political activity. Marshner said. "When the righteous are in power, the people rejoice" because "basic truths don't change...
...networks may not earn the blessing of God as Easter and Passover approach, but they surely do turn righteous. Ever since Franco Zeffirelli's 6½-hour Jesus of Nazareth pulled big ratings four years ago, viewers have received annual lessons in Bible history and spiritual uplift, and have responded with the eager docility of A students in Sunday school. This year's entries in the Sanctity Sweepstakes focus on the struggle between warriors of the Word and the scheming princes of the Roman Empire. Peter and Paul (CBS, April 12 and 14) covers the crucial three decades...
...side economics" has revolutionized policy-making at the state and federal levels, along with shaping the ideals and aspirations of a new generation of industrialists and bureaucrats. Liberal opponents of the new philosophy have accurately dubbed it. "Stealing from the poor to give to the rich," but their self-righteous attitude cannot counter the political power that supply-side proponents have entrenched on their side since the presidential election. Nor can liberals dispel the popular support for tax-cuts and budget-slashing from a large group of people tired of losing their money through taxes used to fund inefficient social...