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BEETHOVEN'S Missa Solemnis has a formidable reputation. It poses extraordinary difficulties for performers, and manifold complexities for listeners. More talked-about than played, the Missa is still forbidden territory to many music lovers, even though Beethoven himself once dubbed it his "most successful" work. But a performance like the one conducted by F. John Adams last Friday night can prove that this mass is a moving and uplifting expression of man's relationship to God, and to His universe...
...nation that lost 20 million in World War II. This terrible memory has been kept alive by three decades of Soviet propaganda, presenting "the Great Patriotic War" as an unmitigated triumph for Communism. Any objective appraisal of wartime collaboration by Soviet citizens with the Germans is still forbidden...
...approves warmly of communal rites, which the Vatican seems to want to establish as the basic, most common form of the sacrament. But those congregational celebrations, the rules insist, must incorporate individual confession and individual absolution for each penitent-a somewhat cumbersome procedure. General absolution is in most cases forbidden. To the disappointment of liberals, it will be largely confined to mission areas, where a single priest may have to deal with large crowds of penitents in limited time...
...Forbidden Planet...
...managing editor of the Detroit News, tells Wallace that it is "dishonest" for reporters to accept favors, although he also admits receiving a press discount on the purchase of a car three years ago. Poorman has since chaired a study on junketing for the Associated Press Managing Editors, and forbidden News staffers to accept any gratuities at all, but he sees no quick reform: "The whole issue is greeted with tightly controlled apathy on the part of many newspapermen...