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...Once a staid citadel of baroque piety, the church in Spain has been torn by shock after shock since police attacked a group of picketing priests in Barcelona last May. Four Catholic publications have defied the hierarchy's wishes by referring to the incident-and three of them were promptly banned by nervous government censors. Last month, after leaders of the 200,000-member Catholic Action approved a resolution calling for separation of church and state, the bishops denounced the statement as being too political in intent, then banned all future meetings of the organization...
...alone, in the silence of a study, or it can bring brightness and glory to vast galleries. The best museums try to offer the visitor both. In the U.S. the two polarities have long been the Phillips Collection in Washington, an ideal haven for art lovers tucked inside a staid Victorian mansion, and New York's Metropolitan, the nation's largest and richest museum. Last week death came to the two men who directed these institutions: Duncan Phillips, 79, who ran the most intimate of museums, his own, and James Joseph Rorimer, 60, who on a Sunday could...
Well, that's the way he was, on the way up. Now, of course, he is a staid and dignified Eliot House senior. But such is the stuff from which myths are made. Which should suit Christopher fine. Last Saturday he finally matched his hero, Odysseus...
...ultimately pays with her life for choosing the wrong husband, Broadway's Joanna Pettet etches a jittery, wounding image of pride slowly strangled. As Libby, the frigid literary snob, Jessica Walter unreels bits of the yarn through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen, as the Lesbian "Lakey," is a stunning presence. Most important...
Last week staid old Zurich celebrated dada's 50th anniversary. Over a thou sand gathered where the Cabaret Voltaire once stood (and Lenin once lived...