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...Bernard Iddings Bell, a canon of the Protestant Episcopal Church who serves as a religious adviser at the University of Chicago, has been blasting away at the manners and morals of Americans for the past 40 years. Canon Bell, author of more than two dozen books, pamphlets, etc., is a concerned critic who usually suggests a cure. This week, in an impassioned little book published by Harper ($2), he is out to cure a national epidemic which he calls Crowd Culture...
Substitute for God. While the school is failing so wretchedly, however, so is the Church. For today, says Canon Bell, Americans have come to regard the Church as the "promoter of a respectable minor art, charming if it happens to appeal to you, its only moral junction to bless whatever the multitude at the moment regards as the American way of life ..." Indeed, "the Church has become to most of its adherents a substitute for God," a place for socials and smokers and innumerable Good Causes...
...best way to save America, concludes Canon Bell, is to raise up an elite, "servants of supersensible purpose," who will help the Common Man to perceive "what the good life is." The trouble with the Common Man is that "he has not learned to see life in all its possible richness . . . has lost contact with that which is greater than himself, from which (or Whom) he might gain courage to escape the crowd...
...slang is used in one of his cartoons in the 'Poon's 1885 volume, which depicts a matronly woman pointing with pride to a portrait of a sanctimonious-looking minister. She is saying to the young man with her. "And this is my son the canon." The young man "becoming a bit bored," replies, "Ah yes, I have always heard there were a great many big guns in your family...
...share of classics, but finds that Europeans have a high "anticipatory interest" in contemporary U.S. music. In response, he has played about 90 American scores in the past 18 months. Among the composers whose works have had European hearings under Dixon are Charles Ives (Third Symphony), Wallingford Riegger (Canon and Fugue for Strings), Howard Swanson (Short Symphony...