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...blest are those who from their labors rest...
...blest fountain of thy blood, Incarnate God, I fly: Here let me wash my spotted soul, From crimes of deepest...
...stoutly low church. Sociologically it was, in the words of liberal delegates, "yes-but." Rancor flared only briefly during its good-humored deliberations, and just before adjourning Low Churchman Roswell Page of Virginia joined with High Churchman Clifford P. Morehouse of Milwaukee in leading the House of Deputies in "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." Then the delegates drifted off home, leaving only a scattered 800 to gather in vast Convention Hall to hear the Pastoral Letter which always ends an Episcopal Convention...
...steps of their shanty with battleships, dirigibles, armaments in the background; 5) a college cheerleader, typifying "subverted individualism"; 6) capitalists gambling with death-headed munitions makers; 7) a triple scene entitled Blessing the Fields (an Orthodox Russian priest giving blessing under the old regime), Fields That Are Blest (a modern Russian farm), Fields That Are Too Blest (a U. S. farmer plowing under crops...
...fame. The opera starts with Menelaos' funeral banquet and Helen as tart a widow as ever she was in the novel. Though she has been loved. she has never known love's madness. So she sets out to find Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes. Against their warning Achilles emerges, in white knee skirts, white mittens and a skin-tight sweater with a letter...