Word: deum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handed the list of "the names of those their nobles that lie dead." As he recites the long roster, name by name, a score of men gradually come on stage each wearing a ghostly white mask splotched with fresh blood. Finally the King intones the incipit of a Te Deum, and the ghostly choir picks it up in unison and, in the manner of the Living Theatre, moves down-stage to face the audience in a long row, humming and swaying from left to right--an inspired fusion of the quick and the dead. The effect of this scene...
...host and offer him as a sacrificial victim to the gods. Then, swiftly as it arrived, the mysterious ban is lifted. Joyously the prisoners pour out the door and blink at the unfamiliar sun. Days later, to commemorate their escape, the survivors reassemble to celebrate a solemn Te Deum Mass in gratitude for their rescue. As the ritual ends, they head for the church doors-and find that suddenly they are unable to leave...
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Te Deum for J. Alfred Prufrock is British Poet Paul Roche's cheerful reply to T. S. Eliot's despair over the barrenness of modern life in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. British Actress Pat Gilbert-Read and the author read the poem...
LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). You have to get up early in the morning to catch a show with a name like "Te Deum for J. Alfred Prufrock"-a dramatic reading commemorating T. S. Eliot's death a year...
...into effect until May. Although modest enough, the 1928 changes do excise some of the gloomiest theologizing of the Anglican past. The burial service, for example, omits "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." In the Te Deum, God, who "didst not abhor the Virgin's womb," becomes who "didst humble thyself to be born of a virgin...