Word: roll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast, finding itself with shallow, mechanical parts, has retaliated by only going through the motions. Even Laurence Senelick's lines, which he lets go with a luscoius roll, somehow land with a clunk. Bea Paipert makes a very funny cow of an old lady, Kathryn Walker gives a droll, nasal performance of a declining aristocrat, and Tom Jones is perfect as a timid schoolteacher. But Director George Hamlin's overall pace is funeral, and most of the performances lack snap. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy the same mechanical trick of "getting sick" five or six times...
...hardly see the seam between the set and music and the rest of the show, so perfectly do they mesh. For Thomas Babe has forged a magnificent Trojan Women out of many disparate elements--Greek theatre, American language, rock and roll music...
What makes this Trojan Women such good tragedy is that it shows off passion without self-consciousness, and we extend our sympathy to meet it half way. It uses a passionate form of music, rock and roll, so naturally and so well that it may be that long-awaited theatrical millenium--a real rock and roll musical. Bradley Burg's score, which, when it is not playing off organ beeps against tympani thumps, is airing subtle and poignant melodies, may well be the best music he has written...
Suggestion Box. Every Postmaster General takes a pasting over stamps. This year the Bureau of Engraving will roll out some 24 billion of them, in 51 varieties, including 24 new issues. A good many are sure to come right back on letters from pressure groups, cranks, philatelists and historical groups...
Suppressed Pastoral. Complaints about Elko began to roll in to Apostolic Delegate Egidio Vagnozzi (TIME, July 14), who recommended that the bishop be called to Rome for a discussion of the problems. Once in Rome, Elko was forbidden to communicate with his parishioners; his traditional pastoral letter for Easter Sunday was suppressed. This month, in a statement that in effect probated the bishop's spiritual estate, Rome announced that Elko's vicar-general, Msgr. Edward Rosack, had been appointed administrator of the diocese; Elko remains bishop in title, with no ecclesiastical powers...