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Wilfrid Sheed CHRISTIAN GENTLEMEN A chapter of 'Commonweal' history Hhere has never been a cult of personality at Commonweal, for which, on the whole, the Lord be thanked and the saints be...

Take a walk in my pajamas: (February 1995)

TARE A WALK IN MY PAJAMAS MY THREE ILLNESSES If his was not, I'm relieved to say, exactly written over my dead body-only against my unflagging resistance. I've never been the least interested in...

Lighten up, Mr. Dostoevsky (September 1994)

THE LAST WORD Lighten up, Mr. Dostoevsky WILFRID SHEED he great critic Sainte-Beuve held, I believe, a low opinion of Flaubert, Balzac, and Stendhal, his three most gifted contemporaries....

William Buckley's several selves: (November 1988)

WILLIAM BUCKLEYS SEVERAL SELVES SOME OF WHICH ARE RATHER SWEET Writing a biography of William F. Buckley is somewhat like trying to play a serious part in a Marx Brothers movie: you're not...

What Frank & Maisie did in America (November 1985)

'GODPARENTS TO A GENERATION' What Frank & Maisie did in America WILFRID SHEED THEY were very hard parents to explain. To take just one thing: whenever they were in England, Frank Sheed...

From the council to the synod (October 1985)

From the council to the synod Raymond Flynn RAYMOND FLYNN holds a Master's degree from Harvard University School of Education. He worked as a probation officer before entering politics. He was a...

The Twin Urges of James Baldwin (June 1977)

left-wing filmmaking frequently seems to become mesmerized by its villains and thus distracted from its own politics. The result here is not Fascism, but it is a kind of compromising obsession...

ENEMIES OF CATHOLIC PROMISE (November 1973)

ENEMIES OF CATHOLIC PROMISE WILFRID SHEED The ambiguous moral pressure American Catholics inflict on themselves Few, if any, societies really approve of the kind of abandonment and obsessiveness...

JESUS REMUGGERIDGED (October 1969)

book of poems. The Geography of Lograire. They bear a kind of Trappist, in my own way." striking resemblances as well as striking contrasts. The The novel is both awkward and...

THE STAGE (January 1967)

SWANK SONG THE STAGE The parentage is bad on both sides. Let B.B.C. humor be dad. Comfy, good taste, good sense. Little songs about animals. Trials of everyday life—parking-the car and...

THE STAGE (January 1967)

THE GREAT LADY BUSINESS THE STAGE What does it take to become a Great Lady of the Stage? After long and prayerful contemplation of Helen Hayes and Mary Martin, Mary Martin and Helen Hayes, I...

THE STAGE (January 1967)

HOLLY WENT LIGHTLY THE STAGE When David Merrick lowered his trusty boom on "Holly Golightly" recently, he was, by unanimous consent, performing one of the great mercy killings of our time....

THE STAGE (December 1966)

OTHER PEOPLE'S FASCISTS THE STAGE Every country has its own style in fascists. No doubt, a touch of sadism makes them all kin at some point, but for dramatic purposes they are always distinctive...

THE STAGE (December 1966)

SOLEMN MUSICALS THE STAGE Talking of collective guilt (and pray why not), it is high time we got on with the de-Rogersandhammersteinization of the American musical. A while back, these wily,...

THE STAGE (December 1966)

ROCK 'IV ROLL DRAMA THE STAGE Moderate Progressive Hawk: It looks like an open and shut case to me. Sophomore phariseeism strikes again. Thank God / never have trouble with moral dilemmas.....

THE STAGE (November 1966)

BEATLE AT WORK THE STAGE I believe it was Lenin who said, "Lower the membership and strengthen the party." Certainly the obverse is true of jokes—widen the audience and weaken the gag. Thus,...

THE STAGE (November 1966)

WEATHERING THE FOLLY THE STAGE "Under the Weather," hereinafter to be known as Saul Bellow's Folly, will undoubtedly provoke many a solemn thought about what goes wrong when novelists take to...

THE STAGE (November 1966)

THE STAGE It takes guts to do a straight Gothic horror story these days: to do it, that is, as if you meant it. For one thing, the number of people in your audience who have ever been rattled,...

THE STAGE (November 1966)

THE MINOR CRITIC THE STAGE The play was making unusually little sense tonight. His attention had slipped during one of the key scenes —well, it hadn't looked like a key scene, but it...

THE STAGE (October 1966)

THE STAGE One of the least discussed, and for all I know the least significant, developments in literary technology is the ever increasing efficiency of modern mimicry. Of course there have...

THE STAGE (October 1966)

THE STAGE "Louder and gayer," says Walter Pidgeon to the gypsy violins. "Louder and gayer!" He is dying of heart-trouble, the family business has just been expropriated by a bounder and the...

THE STAGE (July 1966)

KITCHEN DRAMA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 _9 THE STAGE Every writer has his favorite stage-set: some hotellobby or colliery or back-room which forms the perfect setting to his act:...

THE STAGE (July 1966)

processing industry based on local products, reserves of nickel and bauxite. Put succinctly, the Dominican Republic requires massive economic, social, technical assistance to pull itself out of...

The Stage (July 1966)

THE UNDERCOVER PLAY _9 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 _9 THE STAGE After watching a boy deciding whether to turn into a dog or possibly a left sneaker ("The Biscuit," at the Circle in the...

The Stage (June 1966)

ludicrous. And so, unfortunately for the film, does Gertrud. At the beginning of the picture, she is leaving her lawyer husband because his rising career is so important to him. Then her lover,...

THE STAGE (June 1966)

hypocritical priest, and several others. The film catches well the mood of Machiavelli's cynical ribald play, which hasn't a decent person in its whole roster. But the play talks most of the...

The Stage (June 1966)

Above all, there is no sense of where the Archdiocese is going. In comparing notes after different clergy conferences or private interviews with the Archbishop, priests give conflicting...

THE STAGE (May 1966)

PARALYSIS OF THE WILL 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE STAGE The melancholy fascination which neurasthenia and paralysis of the will used to hold for Russian writers under the later Tsars...

THE STAGE (May 1966)

THE LAST ROUND-UP 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 _9 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE STAGE The Broadway season, which habitually comes in like a Cadillac and goes out like a Stutz Bearcat, is already showing signs of...

Hemingway SI, Papa No (May 1966)

he has already done upon the function of tacit knowing, of focal and subsidiary awareness and our powers of attending from the tacitly known to that which is yet to be known, is his discussion...

The Stage (May 1966)

boys who are "The Girl Getters" there is no future; and when the picture comes to its finale on a cool, gray day at end of summer, you are left with the same hopeless, desolate feeling as Tinker...

The Stage (April 1966)

of that west-side slum building, its owner was suddenly haled into court and instructed to correct housing code violations within a month or go to jail. The meeting with slum landlords moved the...

The Stage (April 1966)

JFK ON FILM 00000000000000 THE SCREEN At long last the stirring USIA documentary film, "John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums," has started its pilgrimage throughout the United...

The Stage (April 1966)

among those who are presumed to be adult. In addition, such behavior is at odds with what the constitution on the Church says about relations within the Christian community. But the paternalist...

THE STAGE (April 1966)

between bouts of love-making and discussion there are many flashbacks showing how they came to be there during this three-day weekend. A viewer may have a little difficulty following these...

THE STAGE (March 1966)

interior sets and on-the-spot exteriors (mostly New York), and Sidney Lumet's skillful direction have done right by the girls. The film does not defend their behavioralthough I suppose every...

THE STAGE (March 1966)

TWO-HEADED IRISHMAN THE STAGE I don't know the history of the stage-Irishman. But I imagine that this clownish compound of sentimentality and bluster, this sugar-coated windbag, originally...

THE MINOR NOVELIST (March 1966)

A sketch THE MINOR NOVELIST WILFRID SHEED He works with the blinds down and he doesn't believe that James Bond is a spoof, or that Tom Wolfe is a spoof. He believes that they are nuncios...

THE STAGE (April 1945)

THE STAGE Rumor has it that Edward Albee is working on two new plays, one of which is due to appear in the fall. A more depressing news item would be hard to concoct, even in fun Not that there...

THE STAGE (February 1966)

TRAGEDY AMONG FRIENDS 9 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN The one movie in last September's New York Film Festival that pleased both the squares and the illuminati was Czechoslovakia's "The...

THE STAGE (January 1966)

THE STAGE One of the frustrations of weekly reviewing is that so many plays close before you can get your hands on them. It is somewhat like being a hangman whose victims all die of...

THE STAGE (January 1966)

immediate danger that the d~erent vahes and institutions will become confused. Hence, society may try to use religion to legitimize its own values; and rehglon may try to use society to give...

THE STAGE (January 1966)

THE FAST AS PAST THE STAGE In case you're wondering what a Hogan's Goat is, it appears at fiist glance to be a theatrical freak or hybrid, like a mule or swoose—half dead-pan pastiche a la...

THE STAGE (December 1965)

JOHNNY ONE NOTE THE STAGE "One song, I have but one song," said that bloodylittle squit Snow White, and John Osborne would probably grunt a surly "amen, ducks" to that. For Osborne also...

THE STAGE (December 1965)

THE HELL WITH IT THE STAGE The late John Whiting may have an interesting posthumous grievance. His play "The Devils" has just received a, no doubt metaphysically appropriate,...

THE STAGE (December 1965)

JOAN MC COY A hYMN, A PRAISE A hymn, a praise — oh the flat places of my eyes resurrect in the wind and stars but I become careless and must touch the ground often. I am sad by way of...

THE STAGE (November 1965)

CHRISTMAS IX NOVEMBER THE STAGE Before the curtain went up, on the second night of Jack Richardson's new play, the word was out: the play was due to close on Saturday night. What direct effect...

THE STAGE (November 1965)

HOUSE OF NO MIRTH THE SCREEN The plethora of new films not only keeps a reviewer on the run but also shortens the length of reviews that have to be squeezed into an assigned space. Some...

THE STAGE (November 1965)

THE UNLIVING THEATER THE STAGE Every now and again, a reviewer should lay his prejudices on the table. So let me say right off that my first evening at the Vivian Beaumont Theater ran counter...

THE STAGE (November 1965)

FROST AS DRAMA THE STAGE "An Evening's Frost" is easily the high-point of the new season—a modest enough compliment, but a heartfelt one. Most of it was written by Frost himself, so it contains...

THE STAGE (October 1965)

unbehevable But so skillful ale the script by Polansk~ and Gerard Branch and the careful, step-by-behevable- step dlrectmn that one is appalled by the murders and the few remaining scenes m whmh the...

THE STAGE (October 1965)

church that climaxes Don Ardlto's recogmhon of his priestly mission, but not before the long night of Gethsemane in the lonely church with the young Mexican who reveals his own wandering search...

THE STAGE (October 1965)

MORE AGONY THAN ECSTASY 0 .9 .9 .9 .9 0 0 0 0 .9 .9 .9 .9 0 THE SCREEN The ecstasy comes when the concept is achieved, but the agony comes through the many failures and long years of...

THE STAGE (July 1965)

owned, showed that fifty-seven percent of West Germany's eligible voters wanted to stop prosecution of Nazi criminals, while only 32 percent favored continuing the Nazi hunt, and 11 percent...

THE STAGE (July 1965)

but done with a vulgar leer rem~nlscent o[ "Kiss Me, Stupid." No doubt "What's New Pussycat" has its amusing moments, but all this expensive talent should have added up to more genuine fun and...

THE STAGE (June 1965)

umnist Victor Riesel, "is the connoisseur of our finest restaurants . . . from New York's Colony Restaurant to the latest rendezvous in California's burgeoning desertY Carey heaps nothing but...

THE STAGE (June 1965)

only one protagonist. Almost the entire action is concerned with Kassner, the Communist, who is literally imprisoned and tortured by the Nazis. His captors fail to discover his identity and...

THE STAGE (June 1965)

MUSICAL NOTES 0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE STAGE Next week Brecht, this week the Palace. A good musical to take your (intelligent but limited) aunt to is "Half A Sixpence":...

THE STAGE (June 1965)

TENNESSEE FOXTROT _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE STAGE The first time around, there was no doubt about it: Arthur Miller was the playwright of social awareness, Tennessee Williams' "Glass...

THE STAGE (May 1965)

large social movements and political parties can achieve. If this type of yardstick is used, impatience will result, the organization will become too ambitious and will shortly get into serious...

THE STAGE (May 1965)

flashbacks are a complete scene, as when Sol in a jammed subway recalls the crowded prisoners being hauled to the camp; or when the assistant's girl (Thelma Oliver), a Negro prostitute, comes...

THE STAGE (May 1965)

Philadelphia lawyer (James MacArthur) for a trip on his fishing boat-with the hope that James can do something about Spring. He does. And she does. I suspect that this bit of fluff will appeal...

THE STAGE (April 1965)

changes made in his script that he asked to have his name withdrawn. In spite of the sensational-silly cavorting between Bus and his ex-girl friend, though, "Bus" is not a total loss, and some...

THE STAGE (April 1965)

CHEVALIER AT 77 0 0 0 0 O0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 THE STAGE If I understand my Hans Kiing correctly, to define any doctrine is to falsify it slightly. Every verbal formulation contains at least the...

THE STAGE (April 1965)

how small their roles (carried to extreme in "The Greatest Story Ever Told") is almost becoming a standard practice now. "Operation Crossbow," which is mainly a thriller about a spying mission...

THE STAGE (April 1965)

"Taxi" has humor and occasional clowning, but it's on a more sophisticated level with satiric touches that kid men's foibles where they should be kidded. The finale of "Taxi," as with "None" is...

THE STAGE (April 1965)

missionary Church that has decided to open the windows, to re-examine her whole demeanor. The French episcopacy does not want the two currents to clash publicly when the case comes up for trial...

THE STAGE (March 1965)

novels, notably in Late Call, is almost entirely psychological in ways that are convincing but not very lively, and Wilson's constant identification with the viewpoint of the old is not to...

THE STAGE (March 1965)

discusses the overcoming of obstacles to perfect ecclesiastical communion so that "all Christians will be gathered, in a common celebration of the Eucharist, into the unity of the one and only...

THE STAGE (March 1965)

ABSURD REFLECTIONS THE STAGE When the theater of the absurd goes wrong, it can be a hard night's work trying to figure out why. Since the avowed purpose of this theater is to "go wrong" in the...

THE STAGE (March 1965)

fiancee (Angela Lansbury in another of her bitter-perfect performances) comes to New York and proves to be so self-centered that Harry drops her, which leaves the way open for Evie and Harry and...

Growing Up Catholic (February 1965)

GROWING UP CATHOLIC Ideal versus real WILFRID SHEED un~ ESSI%10 ;4, /PlAt It is difficult to write about something in flux as if it were something fixed; probably by the time this essay...

The Stage (February 1965)

theologian, and even harder to imagine that a reader would shun such a work because the author has not requested permission to publish. And as for those secular and profane matters—well, at best the...

THE STAGE (February 1965)

of interesting film-making, but not enough to warrant this lengthy movie or its ridiculous finale. Starting as it does with a body on the beach, "Love Has Many Faces" also has an early aspect of...

The Stage (January 1965)

A MESS OF PLOTTAIE .............. THE STAGE A bishop I know (now there's a spellbinding opening) once told me that modern art was simply a logical outcome of the Reformation: start with Private...

THE STAGE: (January 1965)

MIRROR, MIRROR THE STAGE I believe that Edward Albee has asked reviewers not to discuss the plot of his new play in detail: so out of deference to this Hitchcockian whim, I shall content myself...

THE STAGE (January 1965)

LATE O'NEILL • • • • THE STAGE ANYONE who wishes to extract the full juice from Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie" should first hie himself to Robert Brustein's chapter on O'Neill in "The Theatre of...

THE STAGE (January 1965)

of the year, this excursion into the occult was enhanced by the brilliant performances of Kim Stanley, as a medium, and Richard Attenborough, as her mousy husband, and the first-rate cinema of Bryan...

The Stage (December 1964)

its own excuse for being." But you have no excuse if you miss seeing this first-rate film. AND WHILE you're traveling, you'll have a good time at the latest Disney opus, "Emil and the...

The Stage (November 1964)

that the tragic situation in which the Catholic peopl e speaking in His Church, will tell us where we are selfish find themselves in this question of family morality is du e and in which way lies...

The Stage (October 1964)

and Mark Stevens, we finally get the complete story: Jack was no lily, but he was an expert pilot. While most of this is rather superficial, Ralph Nelson has directed some good performances and the...

Hopefully, Schmopefully (September 1964)

8. There are a few places, of course, where the Protestant will find the encyclical disappointing. It has already been remarked that, on one level, it is disappointing to find so little direct...

The Intellectual Two-Party System (July 1964)

its elite are given a reverential awe that they ceased to get in the North generations ago. A secret survey made for the AFL-CIO made this chillingly clear as a great and little-understood obstacle...

The Case for Dirty Linen (July 1964)

more persuasive case for the kind of separation of Church and State which will protect the religious community against the temptation of ever again reducing itself to an instrumentality of a warring...

Heavenly Junkyard (May 1964)

One Man's View Heavenly Junkyard WILFRID SHEED GOD'S OWN JUNKYARD by Peter Blake (Holt, Rine-hart and Winston) says what all of us have been thinking about the deterioration of the American...

The Second Sex, Etc., Etc. (March 1964)

of the federal House of Representative may begin ap- pearing rather soon. The Supreme Court's entry into legislative apportion- ment questions strongly implies that a new cycle of judicial...

Invisible (White) Man (February 1964)

One Man's Fancy Invisible (White) Man WILFRID SHEED RECENTLY, Robert Brustein, writing in the New Republic, suggested that the new English playwrights are just now catching up with the American...

Mr. Wilson and the Cold War (January 1964)

One Man's Fancy Mr. Wilson and the Cold War WILFRID SHEED IF A WRITER hangs around long enough, he turns into a monument, and nobody will fight with him any more, except possibly another...

Salesman, Sell Thyself (November 1963)

One Man's Fancy Salesman, Sell Thyself WILFRID SHEED IF YOU would care to see the soul of an industry exposed and mounted, you might take a look at Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy...

Cinema's Last Stand (October 1963)

One Man's Fancy Cinema's Last Stand WILFRID SHEED THE RECENT New York film festival was one of those events which, like a royal visit to Australia, or a showing of the headmaster's slides,...

Tail End of Summer (September 1963)

ONE MAN'S FANCY Tail End of Summer WILFRID SHEED THIS IS being written in late Summer, when the tribal attention-span is down to about twenty seconds; when, as everyone knows, man has regressed...

The Author as Fiction (September 1963)

One Man's Fancy The Author as Fiction THE FIRST SERIES of Paris Review interviews with famous wnters (Writers at Work, Viking) had a good deal of curiosity value. It was a bit like seeing...

The Pitfalls of Pratfalls (July 1963)

One Man's Fancy The Pitfalls of Pratfalls AT SOME point in his densely improbable memoirs, Ford Madox Ford came up against the question of borrowing from other writers. Well, why not, said Ford,...

Orchids for Miss Hightower (April 1963)

ONE MAN'S FANCY Orchids for Miss Hightowe, r THE GREAT critic Sainte-Beuve held, I believe, a low opinion of Flaubert, Balzac and Stendhal, his three most gifted contemporaries. A ridiculous...

Literary Bird-Watching (March 1963)

ONE MAN'S FANCY Literary Bird-Watching WILFRID SHEED THERE IS a complaint called slow-reader's paranoia and it goes like this. The subject begins to notice early in every publishing season...

Enemies of Catholic Promise (February 1963)

The Catholic As Writer I Enemies of Catholic Promise WILFRID SHEED IT IS POSSIBLE to have an intellectual revival without an artistic revival; and possible to have an artistic revival without a...

"Catholic Plot" Down Under (January 1956)

SPLIT IN LABOR "Catholic Plot" Down Under WILFRID SHEED W HEN Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov decided to choose freedom and the Australian way of life early in 1954, he unwittingly but...

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