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...nothing against the use of comedy in Faustus; for all I know, many of the comic scenes were written by Marlowe himself. But, they could be used discriminately so as to bear some relation to the dramatic undercurrent, which is, for whatever else one may add, a theme of sin, torture, and hell, coupled with the secular joys which lie along the path to hell...
Denni Allen makes a delightful Mephistopheles, somewhat coy and aloof, domineering, and beautifully expansive in his moment, ever tempting Faustus to greater sin. He suffers, however, from a fault which seemed to impede nearly everyone in the cast: an inability to lend sufficient grandeur to his speech. However regal his actions, his voice almost always gives him away...
...that the proposed pact was a "swindle" that would automatically involve Nigeria in war if Britain got in trouble. In his rich, rolling bass, Sir Abubakar fired back: "I have always regarded the leader of the Opposition as a good Christian; in Christianity as in Islam, it is a sin to tell a lie." While Awolowo stared grimly at the ceiling, the Assembly ratified the treaty by a vote...
...declared that no Catholic who voted for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democratic Party would be subject to canonical penalties, thus flatly contradicting Puerto Rican priests who were prepared to deny the sacraments to those who had voted against church instructions until they confessed their "sin...
...their pre-election pastoral letters, Archbishop Davis and two other Puerto Rican bishops had warned that voting for able Governor Muñoz was a sin, but did not attach ecclesiastical penalties. Two weeks ago, while all three bishops were absent from the island, Father Thomas Maisonet, pastor of San Juan Cathedral, took it on himself to attach a penalty: he warned that Catholics who disobeyed the pastoral letters must not only confess but must also promise, as a condition of absolution, not to support Muñoz' party in the future unless it changed its "anti-Catholic, antiChristian...