Word: communions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airway Communion. Baptist Freed, who has gathered his knowledge of Russian hearts and souls firsthand in three extended trips through the Soviet Union during the past five years, finds the Russian response heartening. Even in the depths of Siberia he found families who listened regularly to Trans World broadcasts. Appreciative letters arrive each week from the U.S.S.R. A recent sample: "Peace unto you, our dear friends. We give thanks to our Lord for the privilege he gives us of listening to the loving Word over the radio. We are Christians living here in Moscow. The reception is excellent. We take...
...Russians do not interrupt this communion over the airways. Freed has not a sure answer. "No doubt they feel they have nothing to fear from religious propaganda," he says. "But beyond the materialist dimension there are still men's hearts and souls. No country can decree these out of existence...
...unfortunate that the freedom of the Anglican Communion allows a "publicity hound" like Bishop Pike to give a completely erroneous impression of the church he supposedly represents...
...loyalty to the Germanic tradition (Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner), won recognition for native composers (Williams, Delius), and introduced such composers as Dvorak, Smetana and Strauss to British concert halls. Perhaps no other conductor of his time performed Mozart with comparable fluency and grace, and few could equal him in his communion with those other 18th century masters, Haydn and Handel. But apart from being a conductor and impresario. Beecham had another important career-he was a gadfly committed to "a deadly, unstoppable and indefatigable campaign against the dry rot that one observes everywhere in this unhappy land." His coat of arms...
...victim of cancer of the stomach), but his parish is sick beyond belief. A grieving countess follows him at a respectful distance; haggard crones put knock-out drops in his wine ("they only do it for fun," explains one of his less demented parishioners); and his nine-year-old communion class ignores the catechism to devise methods of tormenting the priest and his faith ("Why must they do this to ine?" is his only response). Why, indeed...