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...remarkable portrait of a strict-constructionist (who loves to carry a lawbook in his hand), of a principled man rather surprised at his own slide into treachery. In view of the play's "happy" ending. Kerr quite rightly makes Angelo not an arch-villain but a probably redeemable sinner. His soliloquies are exemplary. Telling too are his deliberate movements, his slow gait, his hesitation to accept the Duke's proffered symbol of authority, the kneading of his fingers, the wiping of his sweaty palms with a white handkerchief, and, especially, his intense eyes capable of burning like a pair...
...moral premise of The Upstart is that good and evil develop simultaneously within a human being, though only the saint mask or, as in Hilary's case, the sinner mask may be visible at one time. How does innocence survive its season of corruption? That is the question Read raises, and because he is an ambitious writer, he dares to risk absurdity by answering them with a climax that builds toward one word: grace...
...would appear from "Second Thoughts About Man" that modern rationalists are trembling on the brink of the stupendous discovery that "man has an irreducible core of evil"-which seems to be intellectualese for the old-fashioned concept that he is a sinner. Is it possible that after wandering for years in the wilderness with Marx, Freud and Darwin, they are about to return to the Father's house...
...things," he wrote. "His role on life's stage, like ours, soon ends. But what happens to the law is of the gravest moment. The preservation unimpaired of our basic rules of procedure is an end far more desirable than that of hurrying a single sinner to what may be his merited doom...
...those winter flights to Miami or points south. The problem with Howard's Bag is how to teach an old gimmick new tricks. With preposterous ease, Howard's truth-loving new secretary catches on to his secret and converts him to her own uncomfortable creed. The reformed sinner sets off to attack conventional hypocrisy, instead of trading on it as he used to. The author apparently intended a series of hard and funny confrontations as Howard, now obsessed with mendacity, tries to force his neighbors to give up even the small lies that make life comfortable. Instead...