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...Pope's stern no, while not unexpected, is nonetheless a massive blow to liberals in the Roman Catholic Church, and to Catholics in general who had entertained hopes that Paul would somehow find a way at least to soften the church's proscription. It is bound to have wide-reaching effects. It will almost certainly cause confusion and dissension in the church, particularly among the young and among the now disillusioned liberals, both laymen and clerics. Most important of all, it will inevitably increase doubts among many Catholics about their church's ability to keep abreast...
...Episcopal layman, McGaw is a staff member of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute in La Jolla, Calif. He also heads an experimental worship program involving 14 Southern California Protestant ministers and two Roman Catholic priests who use touch-and-tell techniques in their own services and gather periodically to compare the results...
...time Her First Roman makes Broadway, all that is Bernard Shaw's will likely have been exorcised and the show no worse off for it. As is, this musicalized Caesar and Cleopatra is on so un-Shavian a wavelength that the original dialogue (nowhere close to the 80 per cent once required of Shaw's adapters) serves as Champagne to a gasoline engine. Songwriter-book writer Ervin Drake has made no try at the worshipful style of My Fair Lady: instead his idea is to set a romance in ancient Egypt and happily let it go at that. With...
...credit, there are several first-rate tunes and some pretty fair lyrics in Her First Roman. I like a number called "Rome" for both elements, especially the following lyric: "Rome: I long to be at her side, a groom with his day-old bride, trading my dusty sandals for a home." And "Many Young Men From Now" has the added virtue of relevance, not only to the show but to the original play and to Cleopatra as Shaw conceived her. Drake would do well, however, to drop such hack-work as (from a song called "The Wrong Man"): "The world...
...amount of work will turn Her First Roman into a great musical. The entire conception is way too slapdash for that sort of miracle. But with doctoring short of major surgery, there's reason to hope for a solid show on a grand and comforting scale...