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This scatter-shot anthology includes some hastily-written and unincisive editorials, a copy of an address on America by Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, and two finely-wrought and dull poems reprinted from the Sewanee Review. Gabriel Marcel, whom I admire very much, has a reprinted and astoundingly short discourse on the technical and the sacred in modern civilization, a selection whose mixture of brevity and pretentiousness reminded me of the one-page Great Thinker articles Vanity Fair used to run--Gide on Art and Mass Myths in twelve one-sentence paragraphs. There is a reminiscence of Bernard Berenson...
HARVARD GLEE CLUB AND RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY will swell the ranks of the BSO for the Boston's performance of Gabriel Faure's Requiem. The program also includes Bruckner's To Deum and an Adagio from his string quintet; Charles Munch returns to the podium. Symphony Hall; 2:15 P.M. (Repeat performance SATURDAY...
...call a midrash. A midrash is a passage of explanatory commentary on the Scripture -either in analytical, legal terms (Halacha) or dramatic, legendary terms (Haggada). Into the latter category the so-called Midrash Theory puts the Gospel narrative of the birth of Jesus-including such episodes as the angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin of her miraculous conception, and the beloved story about the journey of the Wise Men from the East to Jesus' birthplace in Bethlehem...
...American Catholics," according to Jesuit Francis L. Filas, chairman of the department of theology at Chicago's Loyola University, writing in The Priest. "Shock and surprise have occurred" among "priests, nuns, college students, and even the general public," says Father Filas, from such statements as: "1) The angel Gabriel never made any annunciation to Mary. Luke's account is a pious meditation enlarging on the single fact of the Incarnation, which is the only fact of which we can be certain in Luke's story...
...addition to the weekly picketing, Gabriel M. Kolko, teaching follow in History, revealed that the group will probably have a bill introduced in the legislature in the near future which would nullity the shelter program. He also announced plans for a delegation of eminent scientists to approach Governor Volpe in an attempt to show scientific fallacies in the shelter plan...