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...lengths he has gone to in order to make his trip to the U.S. a success. On trip's eve the U.S.S.R. hit the moon with a historic cosmic-rocket shot even though the moon would have been easier to hit. on other dates. Khrushchev violated every hallowed canon of Communist solidarity when he intervened between Communist China and India to calm down the Himalayan border crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS), thereby advertising to the world that Communism's monolith has its flaws. And his U.N. delegation acquiesced almost amiably in the decision to send a fact-finding commission...
Perhaps even more remarkable was Khrushchev's personal flouting of the other Communist canon, whereby the servants of the people are impersonal, i.e., their private lives are of no consequence, hence are not subject to public inquiry. Last week, in an unprecedented bending to U.S. hunger for personalities, he posed for photographs with his whole family in the Kremlin. Khrushchev in the U.S.-for all the stirrings of conscience and stirrings of resentment among those who fiercely oppose his coming-will probably get more than his share of curious and chaotic attention (see below...
Liberality in doctrinal interpretation is well illustrated by the canon of immortality Nearly every one of the 68 Protestant denominations in this country preaches external existence, but only 31.5 per cent of the Harvard Protestants accept this doctrine. On the other hand, nearly 75 per cent of the Harvard Catholics polled living in the same pragmatic, rational atmosphere retain their belief in immortality...
...Canon Rea also quoted Pope John on the delicate subject of church unity. "In working for reunion," he said, "it is necessary1) to be very meek and humble, 2) to be patient and know how to wait God's hour, and 3) to insist on positive arguments, leaving aside for the moment those elements on which we differ, and to avoid discussions that may offend against the virtue of charity...
Bonporti: Concerti a Quattro (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Four of the ten polyphonic concertos, marked Opus n by a recently discovered Italian Jesuit philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...