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Nearly all the leading candidates have some sort of handicap that would seem to prevent them from gaining a two-thirds majority. The liberal favorites-theologically minded Leo Josef Suenens, 58, of Malines-Brussels, and Vienna's courtly, diplomatic Franziskus Konig, 57-would have to overcome the tra dition that Rome's bishop ought to be Italian. Genoa's Giuseppe Siri, 57, and Palermo's Ernesto Ruffini, 75, are skilled, articulate conservatives-but their lack of aperturismo makes many non-Italian cardinals shudder...
...last week's performance, Strauss's one-act shocker still had plenty of power - from the moment the enlarged orches tra came crashing to life, through the frankly erotic music accompanying the incestuous recognition scene between Elektra and Orest, to Elektra's shrieking "Stab her once more!" at the news that Klytaemnestra had been struck down. But the performance also was a reminder that Elektra no longer has the almost physical shock value it possessed in Strauss's time: overlaying the stark story is a thin coat ing of German Gemütlichkeit that too often...
Tenderloin stars Maurice Evans in the role of a minister who wishes to woo wastrels from the brothel they love. "It's a serious story," Abbott says. "The fashion of musical comedy has changed so much . . . you can't get away with the spring tra la routines wedged in between unrelated dialogue. The current term is 'integrated' musical comedy." An equally serious show about New York's Mayor La Guardia, "Fiorello," won Abbott a Pulitzer Prize this spring...
...John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition of reason, which is the Catholic tradition, to assert itself...
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