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...EVENING AT TANGLEWOOD (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.).* Live from the Boston Symphony's summer home in Massachusetts' Berkshires, Erich Leinsdorf conducts the orchestra and Guest Solo Violinist Itzhak Perlman in selections from Mozart, Dvorak, Tchaikowsky and Saint-Saens...
...little Parrish cares about laughter when you count up his attempts at wit and find that none is original. He opens with a aerial view of an electricity tower rising next to a statue of a Catholic saint--just like the opening of La Dolce Vita where a helicopter swoops over skyscrapers with a piece of saintly statuary roped to its belly. Unfortunately, Parrish steals the shot without understanding...
DUMAS AND SON! is a romantic musical based on the book by Jerome Chodorov and a score adapted from Saint-Saens' Camille. Constance Towers, Hermione Gingold and Edward Everett Horton are among the cast. At the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, Aug. 1-Sept. 16; the Curran Theater, San Francisco, Sept...
...draw awed reactions such as "magnificent." The gay ceramic figures created by Pravoslav and Jindriska Rada for the roof garden of the Czech pavilion are favored companions for souvenir snapshots. The liveliest furor has been stirred up by the "Fantasy Garden" atop the French pavilion, which features Niki de Saint-Phalle's bouncy papier-machelike manikins engaged in combat with the machines of Jean Tinguely. "Fiendish!" sniff elderly English matrons. "Great, wild, erotic!" says a Montreal college-student Expo guide...
Stunted Development. Some church historians now contend that the repressive measures of Pius X (who was proclaimed a saint in 1954) stunted Catholic intellectual development for a generation. Biblical experts were particularly suspect. For years Catholic exegetes were required to abide by the conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, set up at the beginning of the century; among its dicta was the ruling that Moses authored the Pentateuch-even though it contains an account of his death clearly penned centuries later. Not until Pius XII's 1943 encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu, were Catholic Biblicists able to study Scripture...