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Killing Rommel (2008)
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This was a fabulous book. It sucked me in after just a few pages and kept my attention, it taught me a fair bit about WWII in Africa, of which I really knew nothing previously, and the same goes for Rommel. I had no idea he was such an amazing man, and here I learned about him in an enthralling tale of men honorably fighting for their lives and their countries. The account as a whole is a bit fictionalized, but it all revolves around real situations. Easily recommended.
Written as a memoir this historical fiction novel is, well, odd. If it were non fiction the first third of the book would have been rather interesting. However, as it's fiction you find yourself reading about seemingly irrelevant childhood experiences of someone who doesn't exist and that don't particularly relate to the main thrust of the plot. The only thing that you really need to know is that he admires a bloke called Stein, has the hots for Rose whose brother is Jock - yet it takes over a hundred pages to learn this.
After passing this stage of the book the war starts and you think 'hey it's a book about killing Rommel, we'll finally be on his heels now'... and you're wrong. You then spend some time in the fictitious characters life as a tank commander. Then his redeployment to the Long Range Desert Group... which does some more rudimentary missions before finally heading off to kill Rommel. Finally the Rommel chasing begins? Not really, it's only a portion of the book as well, and afterwards we deviate back to the activities of the Long Range Desert Group again.
If the first part was dropped, it was just written as a fiction book and gave the impression it was about the Long Range Desert Group as opposed to specially a novel about killing Rommel it would be a great book. However, it's hard to rate it in it's format. The first half drags, it's only tangibly about Rommel, yet once it finally gets going you find yourself nearly having to brush the sand out of your hair & mouth but then it destroys the atmosphere by flicking back to the present under the guise of it's-a-published-non-fiction-memoir, which it isn't.
Could have been a compelling historical fiction novel - as is, it just passes.
Based on the real-life exploits of the Long Range Desert Group, the British elite forces, Pressfied combines a edge-of-your-seat story with the reality of the North African Theater and those who try to kill Rommel and wreck as much havoc as possible on his troops. Good read!
This historical fiction story takes place in the early 1940's when General Erwin Rommel's (The Dessert Fox) troops were intent on capturing the Mid East oil fields in order to support Germany's war machine in its attempt of world conquest.
Stopping the Eight Army was an essential and significant part of the Allies' counteroffensive plan.
The story in "Killing Rommel" is presented through the eyes of Lieutenant R. Lawrence Chapman (Chap) a fictional tank commander who was "loaned" to a famed commando unit called the Long Range Dessert Group (LDRG) to help asses the dessert for passable routes when the big invasion comes.
Chap quickly becomes friends with his the members of his new unit and meets some historical personalities which have since become legendary(Jake Easonsmith, Paddy Mayne, Ron Tinker, Nick Wilder, Vladimir "Popski " Peniakoff and more). These personalities give historical authenticity to this fictional account of war. One of the group's missions is to find out where Rommel is and call in an air-strike, hence the title of the book.
This book is not only a fascinating story about the LRDG, but it is also an accurate portrayal of how war is fought – months of boredom peppered with second and moments of sheer exhilaration, disorganization and horror.
"Killing Rommel" is rich in detail; the author describes the tanks, guns, trucks, tactics and more with a lot of passion and eye for the obvious and not-so obvious. The book introduces the legends of not only the LRDG, but also the contribution of the SAS as well as Popski's Private Army – a group which I must read some more about.
Even though the details are sometimes exhausting, I forgot that I was reading a fictional account (even though the author maintained that the events were real, but experienced by several patrols) and felt as if I was reading an exciting history book about these daring raids.
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Steven Pressfield's quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare— Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of War, and The Afghan Campaign— have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of military history, a supremely literate and engaging storyteller, and an author with acute insight into the minds of men in battle. In Killing Rommel Pressfield extends his talents to the modern world with a WWII tale based on the real-life exploits of the Long Range Desert Group, an elite British special forces unit that took on the German Afrika Korps and its legendary commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, "the Desert Fox."
Autumn 1942. Hitler's legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English are isolated on their island. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oilfields of the Middle East. With the outcome of the war hanging in the balance, the British hatch a desperate plan—send a small, highly mobile, and heavily armed force behind German lines to strike the blow that will stop the Afrika Korps in its tracks. Narrated from the point of view of a young lieutenant, Killing Rommel brings to life the flair, agility, and daring of this extraordinary secret unit, the Long Range Desert Group. Stealthy and lethal as the scorpion that serves as their insignia, they live by their motto: Non Vi Sed Arte—Not by Strength, by Guile as they gather intelligence, set up ambushes, and execute raids. Killing Rommel chronicles the tactics, weaponry, and specialized skills needed for combat, under extreme desert conditions. And it captures the camaraderie of this "band of brothers" as they perform the acts of courage and cunning crucial to the Allies' victory in North Africa.
As in all of his previous novels, Pressfield powerfully renders the drama and intensity of warfare, the bonds of men in close combat, and the surprising human emotions and frailties that come into play on the battlefield. A vivid and authoritative depiction of the desert war, Killing Rommel brilliantly dramatizes an aspect of World War II that hasn't been in the limelight since Patton. Combining scrupulous historical detail and accuracy with remarkable narrative momentum, this galvanizing novel heralds Pressfield's gift for bringing more recent history to life.
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Why the Texans lost.
I re-watched the game... and here's my reasons why I think we lost this game. (in order of significance)
1) Pass protection. Unfortunately for Yates, Dan O simply got better pass pro. Seemed like we had to blitz in order to get pressure. It seemed like the only times Yates had any time to throw was when we ran a naked boot. Which is probably why we saw so much of it.
2) Their 3rd string QB simply played better than our 3rd string QB. Particularly when it came to looking to make plays downfield (probably because of the poor pass pro). But re-watching the naked boot plays, Yates had two options. Throw underneath to Dreesen, or to the guy running the deep post. Every time, the deep post was open, but he opted for Dreesen underneath. Makes you wonder how many other times someone deep is open but Yates simply misses it?
3) What happened to our secondary? Was Wade our best defensive back? In the past two games, even Jojo hasn't been as dominant.
4) Refs. Right after watching the game, I would have put this #1. But after watching it a 2nd time, I cut them some slack. They called a lot of crappy ticky-tack stuff in the end, they missed a couple of calls in the 1st half, they missed a big intentional grounding by Dan O in the red zone... but still, in the end, Colts made the big plays, and we didn't.
Notice I don't have Kubiak at all in my list, despite the general feeling in this forum. I thought he called a decent game. When Yates went back to pass, I saw poor pass pro, and Yates making poor decisions of where to go with the ball. I can't blame him for leaning towards running the ball more, since the Colts were giving up 6.9 ypc to Foster. You would also think the Colts can't drive 80 yards, under 2 min, with no timeouts... We are now a defensive team. Our defense is better than our offense. So isn't it better to try to win with the strength of your team?
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...and rep for having the stomach to watch it again so soon.
I actually watched the last few plays again to see if there was any justification in those calls. Actually, in two of them, there was. Only the call where Watt got blocked into the QB was an epic fail. The other two were ticky-tacky but technically correct.
After rewatching those calls I deleted it. But I'm pretty sure that NFLN will make that a replay game so they'll have reason to show Major Forehead's face over and over again. Maybe I'll be calm enough to rewatch it.
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Re: Why the Texans lost.
We lost because the refs made more than one questionable call on the last drive.
Chicken shit play calling.
Chicken shit QB play.
And last but not least, stupid ass defensive adjustment allowing Jackson to be one on one with Wayne. People can say he has improved this year but the fact is he still cant beat out a player ( Allen ) that was cut by a horrible team and he still hasn't learned how to turn and look for the ball after two years. He sucks and ther is no way he should not be replaced next year.
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Re: Why the Texans lost.
Our 3rd down conversion rate was terrible.
We would start out a drive....get 1 first down...then start up again....and get 0 yards on first down and have MANY AND I SAY MANY 2nd and 3rd and Long......
Not getting any yards or 1 or 2 on first down was terrible....
Ben Tate.......what the hell......he was terrible..... run production was bad.....
Arian Foster.....did what he could......looked great to me......
Jacoby Jones.....I have to rethink what I said last week......Because he was open down the field according to Andre Ware and did not get thrown to during the game....
Eric Winston.... What the hell man.....he has some explaining to do....he was someones little B*&tch last night.....
Offensive Line....Blocking was spotty.....on both run and pass.....
TJ Yates.... is either being told not throw it down field.....told not to thrown sideline routes.....told not to throw it on long post patterns.......told not to thrown it to wide reciever screens......Until Andre comes back.....
Maybe Yates is being held back by Kubiak.....for the playoffs.....so teams do not have any game film of him throwing all those passes as a surprise.....I dont know....
JJ Watt.....got picked on by the refs.....plain and simple.....those were some bad calls by the refs.....he played great......
Brian Cushing.....another great game too...
Kareem Jackson.....turn around and look at that last play.....
Thats my take.......
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Sorry guys, but we lost because we got outplayed on the field.
We've still got a shot at winning our wild-card game because all indications are
we get an opponent like ourselves which means not much offense, not much scoring: the Patriots will be getting a bye. And we'l have that vaunted 12th man at full-strength.
I'd forget about next weeks game vs the Titans - play your starters at most a half, treat the game like the last preseason game before the regular season opener.
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Re: Why the Texans lost.
Im not sure I believe he is holding him back for the playoffs....for a few reasons
- Why would we do that? A first round bye lets our team get healthier and we REALLY need that right now.
- We did not throw deep in the Bengals game until the 4th quarter, we did not have the division locked up until AFTER the game, so why baby him that game?
- I don't think Gary is smart enough to gameplan "not throwing the ball deep to surprise teams in January"...sorry just don't think he is
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B) Kubiak was too conservative with the play calls.
C) Defense is not the same without Wade on the sidelines.
D) Officiating sucked ass. (although I'm generally not one to ***** about officiating)
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Re: Why the Texans lost.
This pretty much sums up how I feel as a Texans fan right about now...
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Re: Why the Texans lost.
Something has been missing the last 3 games. We're too often flat. And the play calling seems to be limited. T.J. not seeing the field. DBs need to figure out whatever they need to figure out and tighten it up.
Sh!t, without Andre the Rookie doesn't have much to throw to. O.D. is nicked. Jacoby & Walter just don't put a lot of fear in others.
Still, 10-5 with one to play floats my boat. These are my boys. We're playoff bound. Go Texans!
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Re: Why the Texans lost.
I agree especially about the bootlegs, there were many times in the game in other situations also where Yates could of thrown the corner route to a guy who had a step on his man and the shallow zone guy couldn't have gotten back to him.
I thought the secondary looked ok as long as we were being aggressive with the front 7, as soon as we eased off the DBs went back to being toast.
I understand Kubiak's playcalling too, except right at the very end, could't we at least try some trickeration to win it?
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Re: Why the Texans lost.
We've found a few more areas of Tj's game that isn't where it needs to be. We've had a few more snaps of Cardwell & our OL to watch. We've got more film on our secondary against 2 pretty good receivers.
No, everything isn't fine. But I think we're pretty good at correcting our mistakes. Winning this game is not as important (to me) as winning in the play-offs or winning a Super Bowl.
We had a chance to win this game, regardless of all that other crap that went wrong. 1:56 to go, no time-outs, 80 yards to go.
I'm not talking about moral victories, I know it sucks that the Colts are now a 2-13 team, but big picture, no reason to jump ship or freak out. They new we were going to run the ball.... they didn't stop us. They new we would try to pressure their QB... I think we did a pretty good job.
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If we can't even beat the worst team in the NFL when it could give us a bye week in the playoffs then what makes you think we have a chance to beat a team that makes the playoffs? Your optimism is borderline insanity.
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I also agree that the defense seems lost without Wade on the sidelines. Although I know his schemes and ideas are probably not completely lost just yet.
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The defense did not make a stop/did commit silly penalities at key moments of the game. They were put into a good situation with less than two minutes and a third string QB with no time outs having to score a TD to win. Yes, the offesne could (should) have scored more points, but the defense wasn't an innocent victim. That's a situation where the defense has to bring home the win and they did not.
On the premise that Herring is not equal to Son of Bum, well no spit. The individual player's job is to perform in the absense of the SOB, not worry about who is better or not. Wade probably would have appreciated those guys stepping up, not waiting for him to waddle out of his recovery.
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defense was out of gas.. we have some high motor guys and the offense didn't do crap to help them rest a bit.
two games in a row where the defense failed in the 4th
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Understand FQHC operations. Health systems should have a good understanding of the components of an effective FQHC organization and verify that these components are in place.
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Understanding FQHC operations will help health systems better identify how they can develop mutually beneficial collaboration with the FQHC.
Start the discussion. Health systems that are interested in this strategy can start by contacting the FQHC in the service area if they do not have an established relationship. A good starting point for discussion is the respective organizational response plan related to healthcare reform, which can open the door to a discussion of the interest level in exploring areas of potential collaboration.
Learn about the emerging success stories. These stories, which can assist and focus the discussion, include both urban and rural successes. For example, the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership, a collaboration of five Milwaukee-based health systems and local FQHCs, focuses on identifying uninsured and Medicaid patients receiving primary care services in the ED. This population is then referred by FQHC case managers to an FQHC medical home. A portion of the health system cost savings is used to support the FQHC case manager staffing and the FQHC primary care services financial subsidy. (See the sidebar Milwaukee Health Care Partnership below).
Critical access hospitals (CAHs) and FQHCs have also developed successful collaborations. In April 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy released A Manual on Effective Collaboration Between Critical Access Hospitals and Federally Qualified Health Centers. The three collaborative programs examined realized $2,225,000 in direct grant or financial support from numerous programs and $1,083,000 in annual operating savings. Operating savings were generated mainly by sharing administrative resources. (See the sidebar Critical Access Hospital Collaboration with FQHCs below).
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The Milwaukee Health Care Partnership (MHP) was started in January 2007 by Milwaukee area health system CEOs who were concerned about the growing Medicaid and uninsured population, the overutilization of emergency department (ED) services, and the fragmented ED delivery system. The membership includes five health systems, four federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), the Medical College of Wisconsin, and representatives from state, county, and city health agencies.
The Milwaukee area has 350,000 Medicaid and uninsured patients. The area experienced more than 161,000 primary care treatable ED visits in 2008, of which 45 percent were by Medicaid patients and 16 percent were by uninsured patients. Ten area zip codes account for 60 percent of the visits. These zip codes have the highest poverty rate and lowest concentration of primary care in the area.
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Source: Ascension Health Columbia Saint Mary's and the Milwaukee Healthcare Partnership Cultivating Outside Capitalize Goals Partnerships as a Way to Achieve Your Hospital's Community Benefit Goals, Association for Community Health Improvement Annual Conference Presentation, March 2010, Paul Westrick, Joy Tapper, and Christopher Palombo; Conference call Sept. 24, 2010, with Joy Tapper and Betty Ragalie to update the latest results.
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2/3 cup
white sugar
1/2 cup
vegetable oil
lemons, zested
1 1/3 cups
all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons
poppy seeds
1 teaspoon
baking powder
1/4 teaspoon
1/2 cup
2 tablespoons
fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
2/3 cup
confectioners' sugar
I upped the lemon in this by adding extra lemon zest and Lemon Extract since I wanted EXTRA lemony muffins - this was great! They rose up perfectly and look so nice. I had wanted to make lemon poppyseed muffins but didn't have sour cream or yogurt on hand, so I was skeptical of how this would turn out, but I am so glad I made it! Next time I will try subbing some applesauce for the oil and I will definitely double it. I did get 12 out of this batch, but they are going to go quickly in my house I'm sure!
This was an okay recipe, but I found it really lacked in lemon taste. Maybe I'm just a lemon-holic, but I would suggest using at least a few more tablespoons of lemon juice to give it that real lemon taste. Also, I added a lemon glaze directly after removing the muffins from the oven, which was pretty decadent on the sugar side of things, but it was very pretty and added even more lemon, which I love! Anyway, the glaze is really simple- 1/4 cup milk, 3 cups confectioner's sugar, and about 2 tablespoons of whatever lemon you have (lemon extract use a little less). Also, you should know that the texture on these are great! They bake fantastically too, seeing as, unlike most lemon poppyseed recipes that use yogurt, the bater wasn't too heavy.
10 Ratings
These were good, really 4 1/2 stars. I added a bit more lemon juice and zest and used lemon extract instead of vanilla. I made mini muffins and took them to work and they disappeared very quickly. :)
I was seriously craving lemon poppyseen muffins and had found lots of recipes with very poor ratings and reviews prior to this one, which I settled on - and I'm happy I did.
I didn't have any fresh lemons, so I used bottled lemon juice and the zest of an orange I had lying around - soaked in a splash more lemon juice - and I substituted for buttermilk (1/2 cup milk and 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice) as I usually do. I also added just a touch more flour to balance out the batter - which is far more liquid than many muffin batters, but baked up wonderfully.
I wound up with 12 muffins, not 10 - which is no problem, of course - and they are delicious! These are also some of very few muffins I've made from scratch that actually rose and looked poofy, like they are supposed to do. I will definitely be making this again. (Probably with actual fresh lemons next time!)
I was so glad to find a lemon muffin recipe that actually used lemon juice. I had two lemons that I needed to use up so this fit the bill for part of them. The batter was easy to prepare and made 12 muffins exactly. They baked up perfectly in 30 minutes. Easy and delicious! I don't tend to like lemon flavor in baked goods but I ate two of these.
These are really good but mine turned out a little dry so try something a little different to fit it to your fancy
Enjoyed these, easy to make, but not enough lemon. Next time will up the lemon juice.
needs more salt; but very good!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Quick Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Serving Size: 1/10 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 10
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 271
Calories from Fat: 115
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Pier Giorgio Frassati
|Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati, T.O.S.D.
Frassati in his father's office, ca. 1920
6 April 1901
Turin, Kingdom of Italy
|4 July 1925
(aged 24)
Turin, Kingdom of Italy
Honored in
|Roman Catholicism
(Dominican Order)
|20 May 1990 by Pope John Paul II
|4 July
The Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, T.O.S.D., was an Italian Catholic social activist, who was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. He has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.
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Frassati was born in Turin into a prominent family, which owned the noted liberal newspaper called La Stampa. His father, an agnostic, had founded the newspaper and was active in national politics. He served in the Italian Senate and was later their country's ambassador to Germany.[1] Though an average student, he was known among his peers for his devotion and piety.[2]
Frassati was dedicated to works of social action, charity, prayer and community. He was involved with Catholic youth and student groups, the Apostleship of Prayer, Catholic Action, and was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic.[2] He would often say, "Charity is not enough; we need social reform."[1] He helped establish a newspaper entitled Momento, whose principles were based on Pope Leo XIII's encyclical, Rerum Novarum. He joined the St. Vincent de Paul Society in 1918 and spent much of his time helping the poor.
Frassati died in 1925 of poliomyelitis. His family expected Turin's elite and political figures to come to offer their condolences and attend the funeral; they naturally expected to find many of his friends there as well. They were surprised, however, to find the streets of the city lined with thousands of mourners as the cortege passed by, out of the reverence felt for him among the many people he had directly helped during his brief life. He was buried in the family crypt in the Pollone Cemetery of the city.[3]
The poor of the city began to petition the Archbishop of Turin to begin the cause for Frassati's canonization. The process was opened in 1932 and a thorough examination of his life began. In 1989 Pope John Paul II visited his tomb and paid honor to him, calling him a man of the Beatitudes. That same pope beatified him on 20 May 1990.
After this, Frassati's body was transferred from the family crypt for re-interment in the Cathedral of Turin, where it is available for the veneration of the public.[3]
Frassati's feast day is celebrated on 4 July by the Dominican Order.
Frassati is the eponym and patron of Frassati Catholic Academy in Wauconda, IL, a middle school founded in the Archdiocese of Chicago in 2010,[4] and also Frassati Catholic High School, which opened August 2013 in Houston, Texas, in the United States.[5]
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Catholic School will be opening as part of the Toronto Catholic District School Board on 3 September 2013 in the Scarborough area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[6]
Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma, the United States, awards the "Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Award" to its students who have performed an extraordinary level of service to others.[7]
Frassati Australia, based in Brisbane, Australia, venerates Pier Giorgio Frassati as their patron and as a role model for young men. Frassati Australia engages young men in the Catholic faith and encourages them to encounter Christ through living an authentic Catholic life in brotherhood and charity. Currently, there are at least three Frassati Houses in Brisbane and around twelve young men in these houses.[8] The spiritual director of Frassati Australia, Fr. Paul Chandler, is also the moderator of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, the first Australian Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri.[9]
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See also[edit]
- Bartolome Blanco Marquez
- Alberto Marvelli
- Ivan Merz
- Chiara Badano
- Luciana Frassati Gawronska, Pier Giorgio's sister
- ^ a b Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
- ^ a b Luciana Frassati (2000). A Man of the Beatitudes: Pier Giorgio Frassati. Ignatius Press. ISBN 978-0-89870-861-5.
- ^ a b Pier Giorgio Frassati "Biografía"(Spanish)
- ^ Frassati Catholic Academy
- ^ Frassati Catholic High School
- ^ [1]
- ^ Bishop McGuinness High School "Christian Service"
- ^ frassatiaustralia.org
- ^ [2]
External links[edit]
- Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
- Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
- Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
- Pope John Paul II - Homily From the Beatification Mass of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati - 20 May 1990
- Frassati Canada
- Frassati Australia
- piergiorgiofrassati.org
- Pier Giorgio Frassati's official website
- Associazione Pier Giorgio Frassati, Rome


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"I Won't Dance"? Don't ask me. I feel so absolutely stumped on that score; it's like I went and bumped my head on a door. The new Oliver Hailey play that opened yesterday afternoon at the Hayes defies rational explanation, though several rash tries might be made.
Dom, the central character of the three, is first observed swinging a wheelchair round and round in a dim, eerie light indicating, as we only gradually surmise, that he is a cripple who imagines he can walk. How he became crippled isn't explained; he was never in a war and has never held a job.
At the same time, a red light keeps flashing into the room. Cops are outside. There's been a brutal double murder here. Enter Lil, an attractive young woman who says she's just gotten in from New Mexico. It's Lil's sister and the latter's husband, Dom's brother, who have been killed and cut up. Did Dom do it, or Lil? Or maybe Kay, a hooker hired on a regular basis and paid by check by the dead brother to take care of disabled Dom.
By late in the second act, Dom has confessed to the police, who don't believe him. Maybe he's confessed so that his inheritance, which only now we learn is his and not Lil's, will go to Lil, whom he loves but who prefers to live with a Pueblo Indian named Silverhead in a New Mexico pueblo. Kay, who keeps sashaying in and out, finally gets the heave-ho.
All this and so much more is related in an odd combination of stilted and natural talk, all freighted with meaning, one guesses, but overweight.
David Selby tools his chair about expertly, switching to crutches and steel leg braces at one point for a change of pace, and deftly slides out a collapsible hidden bed he and Kay use for their trysts. He even, again in eerie light, glides about the floor with Lil to the tune of "Dancing in the Dark," a scene without which the play's title wouldn't be as applicable.
Gail Strickland wears a vacant look most of the time as Lil, who must not only respond to Dom's sarcastic and often idiotic observations but find things to do on her own - things like picking up a picture, fingering this and straightening that. Arlene Golonka has a much better time of it as Kay, a happy hooker who has been fired from many jobs and now works days for an insurance firm, but prefers prostitution because you can't get fired from that. Kay's good for a couple of laughs, anyway.
The flamboyant director Tom O'Horgan is remarkably restrained here, possibly because the play itself is crazier than anything he might attempt. Bill Stabile's set is California sleek and impersonal. Marty Pakledinaz' costumes are unnecessarily dowdy-looking for the lissome Lil and amusingly flashy for Kay. Craig Miller's lighting is an appropriate combination of the spooky and plain.
David Merrick produced "I Won't Dance." He also produced "42nd Street." Go see that.
There are some playwrights who are obviously talented - perhaps even more than talented - yet with whom someone cannot relate. If that someone is a person, this is bad luck for the person. If that someone is a critic, it is bad luck for the playwright. Sorry.
Oliver Hailey's I Won't Dance opened at the Helen Hayes Theater yesterday afternoon - whoever imagined that the producer David Merrick would ever make his opening night at a Sunday matinee? - and it showed skill, talent and, to my mind, a mildly boring style and a complete inability to suggest life in terms other than cliches and truisms. Of course, cliches and truisms are always right - this is how they became cliches and truisms - but their reiteration is scarcely worth the price of a theater ticket. It isn't surprising then that the show closed today after the opening performance.
I Won't Dance was about cripples - about a specific cripple fighting his way into some semblance of life. When his very wealthy brother and his sister-in-law are murdered, it almost seems natural, in the tradition of Caine and Able image, for him to confess - none too convincingly - to the murder of the brother. He finds himself at this turning point relating his life to two women. These are a more than usually happy hooker, provided by his dead brother, and the woman who loves him but bravely does not pity him. Both play and ploy for his self-destructive affections.
I did not admire the writing, which, particularly in the first act, took boredom to inordinate lengths, and in the second act jumped around with simplistic ideas as if they were discoveries. But why Hailey is interesting as a playwright, even still interesting, is that he can actually nail a character to the door of life. Not, so far, beyond the door. There were just three people here, and they were boldly characterized, even though they were provided with no inner realities and were puppets on a extraordinarily slender string. All of them could exist, but their existence seems too contrived for life.
The direction and incidental music by Tom O'Horgan had a push and punch to them that characterized his direction of the musical Hair. It was all done with an almost explosive expertise. I also liked the Los Angeles stage design by Bill Stabile.
But what really gave the play its saving graces were the performances of the three leading characters. David Selby, long underestimated yet one of the best actors in the country, was wonderfully tortured, anguished and yet funny as the wheelchair cripple fighting for acceptance with a gleaming-eyed perkiness. The two women in his life were equally, or almost equally, effective.
Gail Strickland as the cool-hearted woman who loves him had a superb elegance of manner and walks in beauty. She is a woman who suggests support without supporting.
As the hooker, Arlene Golonka was utterly charming in her ingenuous behavior and her way of conveying sexuality with a kittenish innocence.
This is one of those plays that might please a few people, and perhaps should please many. But, so far as I am concerned, I Won't Dance will never be my personal pas de deux.
''I don't care what you do with your life, it always helps to be crazy.'' So says Dom, the paraplegic hero of Oliver Hailey's new comedy, ''I Won't Dance.'' He's right, of course: insanity is a good shield for deflecting life's pains and indignities. But sometimes craziness alone isn't enough to do the trick. If you're going to endure Mr. Hailey's preposterous play, to take a handy example, might I suggest that you arrive at the theater armed with ear plugs and a good book?
''I Won't Dance,'' which was unveiled at the Helen Hayes yesterday afternoon, can take its place alongside such other recent Broadway kamikaze missions as ''Animals'' and ''Inacent Black.'' Still, it will be remembered by some for its more bizarre excesses. In league with the director, Tom O'Horgan, Mr. Hailey has given us what may be a genuine first: a fantasy sequence in which two empty wheelchairs seem to engage in symbolic copulation. We also witness a simulated decapitation and a scene in which Dom tries to maul a woman by smashing her against a couch with his plaster-casted leg. And why, you ask, is the hero, who's been disabled since childhood, wearing a cast? Well, that's what happens when you hitch your wheelchair to the rear bumper of a car and then get struck by a tailgater on the Ventura Freeway.
Is this all a prank? Uncertainty sets in from the moment we see Bill Stabile's set, a jerrybuilt Hollywood bungalow surrounded by a few crudely painted palm trees and a curtain of towering vertical blinds. The play's story involves the recent double murder of a socalled ''golden couple'' -Dom's brother and sister-in-law. Dom may or may not have hated his brother, a successful lawyer, and he may or may not have been carrying on with his sister-in law, a best-selling novelist. In any case, he seems to regard their untimely deaths as an excuse to party.
So do the play's other two living characters. Lil (Gail Strickland) is the sister-in-law's sister - an elegant WASP who has flown in from New Mexico, where she apparently spends most of her time engaged in uninhibited sex with a ''full-blooded'' Pueblo Indian named Sam Silverhead. Kay (Arlene Golonka) is an insurance-company worker and failed actress who practices prostitution on the side. Both women are sexually obsessed with Dom, and both had motives to kill his brother and sister-in-law.
As it happens, we never do learn - or care - who murdered Dom's kin. ''I Won't Dance'' does not boast the saving grace of being a whodunit. Mr. Hailey, the author of ''Father's Day,'' seems instead to be attempting a serious black comedy about family relationships, death, sex, love and the handicapped. Or at least I think that's what he's up to. This play could not be more incoherent if its scenes were intentionally played out of sequence.
The oddest moments are those involving Dom. At once whimsical and bitter, he is apparently meant to challenge the audience's sentimental preconceptions about paraplegics. While he wants to be loved, he doesn't want people to assume pitying responsibility for his life. Besides, he's perfectly happy to live in his own active fantasy world. Dom has lots of dreams - all too many of which are acted out here. He dreams he can walk. He dreams he commits murder. He dreams of a wheelchair-dominated utopia where people sing the song ''Did You Ever See a Dream Rolling?,'' go to the movie ''The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Roller'' and keep Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House forever.
Mr. Hailey overwrites the overwrought Dom to the point of irritation. Then David Selby takes over. With his broad Texas accent and large repertory of goofy grins, this outsize actor wields cuteness like a club. Once he enters the dream sequences - which require him to leap out of his wheelchair to sing and dance and flap about in braces or crutches - he starts to look like L'il Abner on an overdose of amphetimines. Mr. O'Horgan, that master of shlock stage effects, completes the picture by drenching Dom's shenanigans in creepy lighting (designed by Craig Miller) and horror-movie music (of the director's own composition).
The one conventional character, the selfish sister, is a pill who defies the smashing-looking Miss Strickland's game efforts to make her interesting. The hooker is a bit more intriguing, if only because she gets to deliver Mr. Hailey's six or seven funny, if utterly irrelevant, jokes about Hollywood and showbiz. (In her nightmares, Kay says, she pictures herself bludgeoning people to death with a copy of Uta Hagen's book ''Respect for Acting.'') While by no means subtle, Miss Golonka does earn our profound sympathy in a role that requires her, among other indignities, to submit to a sound spanking by Mr. Selby. Indeed, by suffering corporal as well as intellectual punishment in ''I Won't Dance,'' this actress almost convinces the audience that it's getting off easy.