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...MOST PEOPLE in our times the really perplexing questions of sin and redemption turn up in a secular context. Religion tends to be a perfunctory kind of activity, if you bother with it at all, or an eclectic sort of scholarly pursuit. Everyone has mystical moments, or gets tangled up in emotions, fazed by situations that are hard to sort out in a rational way. But 20th-century life demands a pretty pragmatic and scientific frame of mind...
BERLINGUER AND THE PROFESSOR has been translated into American not merely because it involves our secretary of state, but because it is designed for American intellectual "liberals" of the sort that have been following Italian politics with Joseph Kraft in The New York Times. The book caters to those who can laugh sarcastically at a description of Kissinger "seeing red" when he hears from the CIA that the communists are gaining in popularity, but who fear the reality of the communists' growing power. It caters to those who themselves have the stereotyped "Italian" view of politics: no illusions...
...marvelous score. You can see why Maurice Chevalier was so immensely popular; if anyone ever deserved the word 'infectious' to apply to their charm, it was he. Jeannette MacDonald's nightingale ambitions are only mildly offensive here, and there is a stretch in the picture when she's even sort of sexy--although she's nothing compared to the poutingly hungry, frustrated Myrna Loy who shows up like a surprise guest at a party...
William R. Fitzsimmons, director of admissions, said yesterday that those problems were minor and of the sort that occur when something is done for the first time...
...Council of Love. One of the actors in this play described it to me as "more of an orgy, sort of, than a play." This is its American premier, and as far as I can tell it deals with syphilis coming to the papal court in the 17th century. Or something. An allegory for heaven knows what, by Oscar Panizza. On the Loeb Mainstage, May 5-8 at 8 p.m. $3.00 weekdays and Sunday, $3.50 on Fridays and Saturdays...