Word: alb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SPIRIT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ITS AUDACIOUS BUT NECESSARY ATTEMPT TO HOLD FREEDOM AND ORDER IN BALANCE . . . THE EFFORT SOMETIMES FAILS, ISSUING IN AGONIZING PERIODS OF FRUSTRATION AND DEFEAT. IN SUCH TIMES FAINTHEARTED MEN SURRENDER TO THE ILLUSORY COMFORT OF THE STRONG ARM, EVEN IF CLAD IN ALB AND CHASUBLE. THE REV. MR. KERNAN'S SURRENDER AFTER 26 YEARS IS SYMBOLIC OF A TRUTH WHICH PROPONENTS OF FREEDOM HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN-NAMELY THIS: IT IS EASIER TO THINK AND WORSHIP FOR PEOPLE THAN IT IS WITH THEM. MR. KERNAN'S NEAR CONTEMPT ' FOR THE LAITY INDICATES...
...nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...