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...October Revolution and that it was "dedicated to the memory of Lenin." The music is divided into four parts: revolutionary Petrograd, Razliv (the place where Lenin went into hiding to avoid arrest by the provisional government), Aurora (after the cruiser that fired on the Winter Palace), and the finale. Dawn of Mankind. The symphony avoids the dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music; it recalls far better works in its sharply staccato rhythms and in the superb ingenuity of some of its string sequences. But not even as fine a technician as Shostakovich could conceal the general...
Writing in the current issue of the quarterly Theology Today, Presbyterian James I. McCord, 41, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, maintains that the first characteristic of the new age is "the dawn of universal history"-a worldwide interdependence which has brought to an end the time when each nation could make its separate history...
...Christian, says McCord, this raises the question of the uniqueness of Christianity. "Inevitably, the dawn of universal history will be a stimulus to syncretism''-the combining of elements from different religions. "Our most widely read historian. Arnold Toynbee. is an apostle of an amalgam of Christianity and Mahayanian Buddhism." And the syncretist "is an indication of the necessity of a Christian apologetic that will take seriously the new conditions that have emerged and the new context out of which the syncretistic question is asked...
...dawn rises rosy-fingered over the Brandenburg Gate. A golden rope stretched from east to west between the pillars of the gate shimmers in the dawn's early light. Above the monument, perched on a soft white cloud, is the Heavenly Choir, which to Beethoven's music sings...
PROMISE AT DAWN (337 pp.)-Romain Gary-Harper...