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...mass obsessional neurosis" called religion, except for its occasional help as an opiate to stifle a neurosis. For all his own scruples, he deplored society's religion-based concept of morality, saw the root of modern man's problems in the concept of sin...
...gives a virtuosic performance as Oedipus, who dominates all the scenes of the play. With a sonorous and resonant voice, he conveys to perfection the character of a man who is physically helpless but spiritually strong; a man who, like King Lear, proclaims himself "more sinn'd against than sinning;" a man who, although having committed incest and parricide, is not morally guilty, and arrives at a wiser view of sin in which his past deeds are not crimes but sorrows. The denunciatory "kakon kakiste" speech to Oedipus' wayward son Polyneices is particularly outstanding, and all the more terrifying...
...Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital: "The 325,000 clergymen in the U.S., teaching Sunday schools and preaching in pulpits, can foster healthy emotional attitudes if they have some knowledge of emotional dynamics. They can bring about a more realistic attitude toward guilt, with less emphasis on sin while still recognizing its importance...
Book Gresham's evil power is opposed by Brother Cox, the "webbed faced" preacher who tries to close the valley honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce...
...people, but French novelists have made his little delinquencies into one of the most readable of literary exports. To be sure, there are the existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare of Marcel Aymé and The Wicked Village of Gabriel Chevallier a fun-and-games...