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...beginning, Cassidy is a simple revolutionary, spitting at the carriage trade while he digs ditches to support his mother (Flora Robson) and sister (Sian Phillips), both doomed to die in genteel poverty. The teakettle warmth of Irish family life simmers comfortably until Director Jack Cardiff plunges into the eye of street fights during the Transport Strike and the bloody Easter Rising of 1916, catching the awful impact of thudding billy clubs, of bullets and bombs and sudden death, letting his camera soak up the slaughter in pitiless detail...
...others dubious about integration. Such radiorators as Carl Mclntire and Billy James Hargis, who are fundamentalist in religion and right wing in politics, charge that the council is soft on Communism because a 1958 council study conference advocated recognition of Red China, and because council leaders welcome Rus sian Orthodox churchmen...
Altering the Course. At Enugu, op position to Rodger came from the Rus sian Orthodox representatives, who appreciate Visser 't Hooft's great interest in keeping open the lines of communication between churches on both sides of the Iron Curtain. African and Asian leaders were also disturbed about en trusting the secretaryship to an inexperienced ecumenist. "It is not enough to keep the council on course," explained one "new church" spokesman...
...Canton's main park 3,000 Communist youth at a signal begin wildly cheering a Western businessman, and at another signal, just as obediently, they stop. People seem terrified to accept even the smallest gift from foreigners, evidently for fear of being tabbed as spies. Visiting coeducational Sian University, a French Deputy asks a question natural to any Frenchman: "Does the proximity of 5,000 boys and 2,000 girls pose any problems?" There are puzzled stares, and the rector replies: "What sort of problems?" The French visitor: "Sexual problems." The rector: "Je ne vois...
Burton-Becket hardly senses this obsession; his concern is his own soul, "Where honor should be, in me there is only a void," he tells his mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die to defend canon law, made great by the great office thrust upon him, or is he merely a self-appointed martyr in search of his Cain? Given a mass of ambiguities to project, Burton projects them remarkably well. He daringly meets the competition offered by O'Toole with...