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...Orchestra conducted by Robert Whitney; Columbia). One of the most prolific of U.S. composers in a fine, strong work that is worth every penny of Louisville's $1,000 commission (TIME, Jan. 24). Subtitled Seven Rituals of Music, it moves from a wispy, tender "music for a child asleep" into a too-thunderous "ritual of work," a syncopated "dance and play" movement with a xylophone that sounds as if it were made of china, to a movement of whispering magic and a fugal finale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...these empty pews optimistic Anglican Witcutt notes that the unchurched English are "not bitter anticlericals and atheists, as they would be in a Continental country. They are members of the Church who are at present asleep, and one day someone's voice will wake them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: To Rome & Return | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...proper conclusion, Our Lord would have come from a large family indeed, if we follow their interpretation that "brethren" signifies actual brothers and sisters: "Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep." (1 Corinthians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...night, when everyone was asleep, I would get up from my bunk, and on a rough box I would prepare the altar and celebrate Mass. For the consecration ot the Eucharist, I used little crumbs of bread and five or six drops of wine. The most difficult thing to find was the wine, but the Lord saw to it that I never lacked. Sometimes I made it myself, fermenting the juice I squeezed out of bunches of dried grapes that I got from a fellow prisoner in exchange for many platefuls of 'Volga.' I kept this precious wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mission in the Night | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Occupational Fatigue. In Evansville, Ind., police arrested Lawrence Lee Edwards on charges of burglary after they arrived at a business office, found one end of a screwdriver wedged in a battered cashbox, the other end held by Edwards, who was sound asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

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