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...book covers one liturgical year. What preoccupies the author is the role of ritual -- the dailiness of religion -- in a world that has largely lost faith. The Kreers are not strong enough characters to sustain that ambitious theme, but there are compensations. Wilson has a lethal grasp of parish politics. He watches gleefully at the plotting of the low-church Spittles, who had poisoned Kreer's mother's mind against him. Seizing the moment, his ecclesiastical superiors finish Kreer...
...must fall on Ambassador Loeb, who has assembled an amateur, private collection rather than definitive scholarly statement on Danish painting. But Peter Nisbet, the curator of the Busch-Reisinger, should have made a more coherent selection from Loeb's collection. With some nobel exceptions, nineteenth century Danish painting cannot sustain an exhibition on aesthetic genius alone...
Rhino is planning to continue re-releasing old Atlantic catalogs. If they sustain the intelligence and care they did in both the selection and composition of these three sets, future releases should prove to be as sure a bet as these three...
...troupe who narrates while keeping the action moving, also has some fine moments. Tuttleton especially shines in her final moments of fury. One could only wish that she could sing as well as she could act. On such numbers as "Simple Joys," her voice clearly strains and can't sustain the notes. A few other cast members, most notably Debby Margaritov as Pippin's love interest Catherine, also lapse in their solo numbers...
...willingness to tackle what must be done helps sustain most newcomers. Sun Microsystems' Khosla, 38, an Indian engineer with an M.B.A., worked through holidays and vacations for two years to build up his company, which sold $4.3 billion worth of computer workstations last year. Quasi-retired as a multimillionaire for eight years now, he remarks, "Growing up in India made your expectations of reward much lower. So, you are prepared to work harder and make more sacrifices...