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...Misfit." Before leaving for London on his way back to the U.S., Kennedy visited with Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland and symbol of the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to the Communist government. Polish officials urged him not to see the cardinal, insisting it would be against the best interests of U.S.Polish relations. Kennedy disagreed, pointed out he was a Catholic on a private trip to Poland. He and the cardinal talked for an hour at the Jasna Gora monastery in southern Poland...
...later program, Stefan Wolpe's First Symphony was equally iconoclastic and prefaced by an even airier speech. Wolpe had written it in 1956, had never been able to get an orchestra to tackle what Bernstein called this "unperform-able work." Finally, after Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg-a mathematician as well as a conductor-agreed to take the podium, it went into rehearsal. It was still too much for the Philharmonic, which attempted only the first two movements (Not Too Slow and Charged). The symphony rapidly disintegrated into fragments of non-melody and non-rhythm. Long passages sounded like a busy...
...Jasna Gora monastery, the most sacred shrine in Poland, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski last week blasted grow ing Communist efforts to curtail church activities. Speaking to groups of the more than 100,000 pilgrims gathered to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, the cardinal cited a government ban on organized pilgrimages and pro tested against roadblocks where some pilgrims had been harassed during the trip to the shrine, enduring their own "Way of the Cross." Ostensibly, the ban resulted from a smallpox outbreak in the vicinity, but there was no inter ference with nonreligious tourists...
Unfortunately, there is no subtlety or coherence in the acting. Bronia Stefan, as the nurse, plays too broadly. She seems to be Blanche du Bois and Maggie the Cat rolled into one, but by parodying Tennessee Williams (something Williams himself must learn to avoid) she is not playing Edward Albee. Her self-conscious and mannered acting conflicts with the play's style. A characterization, such as Ernest McKinnon's Jack, built by alternating laughing and mumbling, evokes nothing more than the character of a laugher and a mumbler. This effect may be what the actor strived...
...Stefan Dupre, assistant professor of government, gave several other reasons why he thought the Conservatives would lose...