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...next day, Harry Truman gave his pastor at the First Baptist Church his own explanation for his robust health: "I've had to work so hard all my life I've never had time to get into mischief, and that accounts...
...part of Germany. But, as Munch explains it, "true Alsatians have always remained French, as the country itself has remained a French province ..." His father, Ernest Munch, was organist at Strasbourg, professor at its Conservatory, and founder of the celebrated choir of St. Guillaume. The organist of that church at one time was Albert Schweitzer, author of the great work on Bach. He is a relative and close friend of Munch, and participated in the eight-day Bach Festival at Strasbourg which Munch conducted in June...
Most of the numbers on the program rocked Memorial Church on its heels, the old building sending back echoes of protest. Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," a sultry Basque setting, was particularly strong in diction and attack, something for which the Club is famous. Singing out-doors is a real test of such polish: Tuesday's audience heard every word. The concert ended with four choruses from "Patience," and afterwards members of the University joined the Glee Club on the steps to sing football songs. Merriment prevailed, and the spring counterpart of the football rallies had once more...
Jean Barois is the story of a young Roman Catholic intellectual who breaks with church and family, becomes a freethinker, wins a reputation as a progressive by pleading the cause of Dreyfus. Gradually (after his carriage accident) he becomes dissatisfied with materialist answers to matters of life & death, and in the end returns to the fold...
When first published, the book was mistaken by some for an ironic smirk at the church. A weary smile, at least, is there; Martin du Gard is, personally, an avowed atheist. But there is also a bored grin at the starry-eyed rationalism and humanism of the pre-carriage Barois. To Author Martin du Gard, there are no sure answers to anything, either in religion or irreligion. But most of the sting is taken out of his irony by the simple compassion for human beings that salves every page in the book...