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...Thompson's music, scored for a chamber orchestra, organ, chorus, and the figures of the Pageant, is unadorned, often almost spare, and calmly joyous. A bustlingly rustic fugue hurries the shepherds towards Bethlehem, where they celebrate the Nativity in an awkward but loving dance. Mary croons a soft lullaby, and Joseph sleeps contentedly by her side. Simeon prophesies the wonders of the Messiah's coming; a boys' choir sings an awestruck Noel, the chorus a mighty, antiphonal Alleluia...
Klausner explored the violent hatred of Jews of one man, Rudolf Hess, commandant of the Auschwitz death camp. Seeing Jews who had lost their identities, whose sole aim in life was to avoid the gas chamber, he could hardly avoid becoming totally oblivious to their feelings...
...Senator Truman knew what he was talking about. In the inner circle that rules the Senate, Styles Bridges was the innermost man, the dean of Senate Republicans, and one of the savviest politicians in the upper chamber. He was a poor speaker, and his name was never attached to any historic item of legislation. Yet last week, when Bridges died of complications following a heart attack, the Senate lost one of its most influential members...
...CHAMBER MUSIC of the baroque period will be presented at the Jewett Arts Center at 4 p.m. Sunday. Program includes works for diverse chamber groups by Stradella, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and Handel...
After it pokes out its cannon to meet threatening danger, the bombardier simply opens an internal valve and forces some of the stored fluid into a small, strong-walled combustion chamber, where it is "ignited" by enzymes from glands lining the chamber. The peroxide quickly decomposes, giving off oxygen gas at considerable pressure-and shooting out of the cannon a loud, offensive discharge that makes the bombardier the insect kingdom's biggest...