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...other major issue before the House of Bishops was Pike's authorizing a deaconess to distribute previously consecrated elements at a Communion service (TIME, April 30). This radical departure from church tradition, Pike told the bishops, was based on an ambiguously worded canon on deaconesses approved by last year's general convention, which implied, to him, that women were "ordered" to the diaconate just as men are. To close this loophole, a committee proposed a new resolution enumerating the "chief duties" of deaconesses that excluded distribution of Communion. Ex-Lawyer Pike quickly spied the flaw: distributing Communion could...
RICHARD TUCKER: THE ART OF BEL CANTO (Columbia). The great American tenor sings the ravishingly beautiful songs and arias (Caro mio ben, Gid il sole dal Gange) that constitute the canon of bel canto. His vocal line, the essential element in bel canto, is lyrical, firm and without breaks. There are more sensual interpretations of the art, but few more satisfying...
...Warned Kuhn: "We've got to make up our minds as to whether we're going to face the facts of life or stick our heads in the damned sand." Apart from caution or complacency, the chief pressure against change comes from the A.B.A.'s 1908 canons of ethics (now being studied for revision), which condemn all efforts to stir up law business and flatly ban "lay intermediaries" -non-lawyers who aid in the choice of a lawyer. Beyond that, Canon 35 forbids a company lawyer to represent employees "in respect to their individual affairs." Canon...
...shall not want") was a pastoral solo sung by a boy alto till the chorus interrupted with "Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The third and finest section of Bernstein's 18½-minute work interweaves Psalm 131 through a simple canon to a pianissimo "Amen...
STRATFORD, Conn. --If Shakespeare's name were not attached to The Taming of the Shrew, the play would doubtless be gathering dust. Ranking near the bottom of the canon, this early potboiler is a paltry piece of work. Shakespeare very likely cooked up this bit of woman-baiting to appeal to the myriad Elizabethan fans of bear-baiting. Only the S.P.C.A. came out ahead...