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Between concerts not long ago, relaxing in his customary soft collar and black velvet neckpiece, he mused: "When I was a very young boy, I prayed to God, 'I am a very bad sinner, and I don't deserve any glory-I don't want to go to heaven. The only thing I ask: Please leave me here.' And now I want to stay here 50 years more...
...Sinner Spring. In Greymouth, New Zealand, police searched two weeks for Escaped Prisoner John David Buckeridge, finally pulled back the covers on a neatly made bed in his mother's home, found Buckeridge stuffed inside the mattress with only his head sticking...
...quieter moods of such a song as Scarlet Ribbons he may stand perfectly straight, his head and shoulders pinned by the spotlight, lips eloquently pursed. In Sinner's Prayer, his face contorts in anguish; in Mark Twain it breaks wide in gutty laughter. When he attacks Love, Love Alone, a comic number, he often throws his arms wide, pivots in an arc from the waist and wobbles his head to the rhythm while he delivers the calypso lyrics with an impudent grin...
True in feeling, Requiem is sometimes hollow in logic. Temple's behavior is baffling except in terms of innate depravity. Nancy's sinner-into-saint switch is an abuse of poetic license. But to a theater often governed by the spirit of commerce, Faulkner has brought a play whose commerce is solely with the human spirit in its torment, in its aspirations, and in its vagrant moments of nobility...
...zeal ... If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." Finally, says Lewis, the violently angry passages of the psalms evoke God's implacable anger toward sin (if not toward the sinner); the "relentlessness of the Psalmists" is at least preferable to moral indifference masquerading as charity...