Word: satanizing
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...Incredible" Job. The Christian Century's drama critic, the Rev. Tom F. Driver, who also teaches Practical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, criticized MacLeish for making his play a non sequitur by jumping down from the theological discussion between God and Satan to dwell upon J.B.'s purely human sufferings...
...Poet-Playwright MacLeish speaks out for himself. Whatever the opinions of scholars about the question of the Book of Job's split authorship, he takes it as a whole. The prologue in heaven is to him supremely important. Why, he asks, does God deliver the innocent Job into Satan's hands...
...demonstrated that Job loves and fears God because He is God and not because Job is prosperous . . . that Job will still love God and fear him in adversity, in misfortune, in the worst of misfortunes-in spite of everything . . . Which means that in the conflict between God and Satan, in the struggle between good and evil. God stakes his supremacy as God upon man's fortitude and love. Which means, again, that where the nature of man is in question . . . God has need...
...would be unjust to leave Milton without speaking of his greatest work--and of a marvelous capsule analysis of the motivations of one of its characters. "Satan in Paradise Lost," one exam perceived, "is what Milton would have liked to have been if he hadn't gone blind." But then, this bit of biographical lore doesn't seem so bad when compared with the identification of Hogarth as Beowulf's grandfather...
...roles of God and Satan are currently taken by Raymond Massey and Christopher Plummer, respectively. Each of them has one of the most glorious voices of his generation, and each uses it with optimum effect. They are both on stage from beginning to end, though they remain silent for long periods of time. But they know how to project their presence even then, for they are both masters of what Ethel Barrymore has called "perhaps the highest art of an actor--the art of beautiful listening...