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Beethoven to Mendelssohn. As a result of Editor Blom's uninhibited pen (always filled with green ink), much of Grove V is merry and informative,* avoids the sentimental dogma of earlier editions...
While lacking in strict dogma, and refusing to compete with established religious, Moral Rearmament requests its followers to observe a daily "quiet hour." During such a period the individual concentrates on an attitude of mind, which according to believers in moral rearmament, brings the guidance...
During the later Middle Ages, Franciscans established a famed theological epigram: Potuit, decuit, ergo fecit-God could do it; it was fitting that He should do it; therefore He actually did it, i.e., keep Mary free of sin. These traditions were embodied in the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854), which holds that God "exempted" Mary from the hereditary stain of original sin by making her immaculate at the moment of her conception in the womb of St. Anne, her mother. Mary was thus preserved free of all sin in anticipation of her role as the Mother of God. Almost...
...antinomian" historians (who are devoted "to the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another' "), Toynbee organized history in a pattern. He treated not of nations or races or even "forces," but of civilizations which he saw living and dying in regular cycles. This concept was popularized by Germany's brilliant Historian Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), but where Spengler saw the rise and fall of civilizations inexorably fated, Toynbee believed them subject to man's free will and God's grace...
...Italy's Reds, September is festa month, a time for rousing party parties, where fun is mixed with the serious business of renovating Communist dogma and replenishing Communist coffers. Piazzas and parks throughout Italy echoed last week with the sounds of lively local Communist festas. The biggest blowout of all, attended by the party's biggest Red wigs, was to be held in Florence's gracious old Cascine park. But Florence's stoutly anti-Communist police chief did not fall into the fun-loving spirit. Last week he abruptly withdrew the party's permit...