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...Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Fairfax Station, Va., and this year the man who had come to do the honor was the Pope's ambassador to U.S. Catholicism. For Archbishop Jean Jadot, who logs more air miles than President Ford, it was a typical visit to small-town America. Jadot has given a speech in Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House (saying a few good words for country music), climbed aboard a corn combine during a rural-life conference in Iowa, and said Mass for Vietnamese refugees in Indiantown...
...body of literature about the Harvard Summer School is small and, alas, not particularly distinguished. It consists, in fact, of one book--a light romantic novel, written in 1899 by one Arthur Stanwood Pier and called The Pedagogues: A Story of the Harvard Summer School. The Pedagogues has understandably failed to earn for itself a lasting place in American literature; it is an inconsequential tale about various romantic misalliances in a Summer School English composition class populated by small-town high school teachers. It has very little sweeping design or extraordinary depth or memorable character-portrayal or that sort...
...death weapon is an odd object for cheering. So, for that matter, is Joan Little. But the chants of some 500 demonstrators merely echoed the uniqueness of the case that came to trial last week in Raleigh, N.C. What began as an obscure slaying in a small-town Southern jail has burgeoned into an expensive legal struggle and an emotional national controversy. Supporters of Joan Little, the 21-year-old black defendant, have raised nearly $300,000 through nationwide appeals; the state of North Carolina and its Wake County are spending some $100,000 to provide lavish trial security...
...time she was 13, Gladys had learned how to press clothes under hotel mattresses as well as to avoid drug pushers and to cope with racism and greed. Before every concert the four teen-agers joined hands in a prayer circle, a ritual they continue to observe. Small-town promoters quickly spotted their vulnerability. Once after they had given two performances in Paducah, Ky., the promoter pulled out a gun and refused to pay. Says Gladys: "There was nothing we could do except leave in a hurry because we were peace-loving people...
Although born and raised in New York City (and a 1951 graduate of Harvard), Gwynne has mastered his small-town New Hampshire accent to absolute perfection. The consistency and authenticity of his diction are uncanny. I've never seen so fine a Stage Manager. And this is the best work Gwynne has ever done--a flawless performance...