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...experimental basis, a number of the 1928 revisions, plus a few new ones recommended by a church liturgical commission. The text of these changes was published this month, but will not go 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...
...Only the gloomiest philistine would question the spirit of the State Department's cultural exchange program-its value is eloquently stated in pictures of Leonard Bernstein drawing admiring crowds in Moscow and Louis Armstrong flashing teeth and trumpet for fascinated Africans. Yet last year the program was suspended for a thorough reappraisal, and after six months of hearings, it was clear that the program's practices had not always lived up to its promises. Last week, with a new and far better charter, the "reconstituted" program was under way again as the first of 14 music and dance...
CROWDS AND POWER 495 pp.-Elios Canetti- Viking ($7.50 The gloomiest of modern thinkers have found the human being sex-ridden, despairing or just plain hollow. But Elias Canetti, 57, a Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright, goes further. In this massive, provocative and often brilliant work, he concludes that man is power-mad, and never more so than in a crowd...
...past than the misunderstood present. Johnson, who grew up in East Germany and moved (not fled, he insists) to the West in 1960, has become famous writing about the side he came from and the interplay across the border. Johnson's books seem to offer Germans the gloomiest of choices. East Germany is a police state, less oppressive than the West thinks, but nevertheless no place to live. West Germany, though relatively free, is poisoned with smug, forgetful materialism and a lack of purpose...
Following two crisis-filled weeks the Crimson has managed to put together two good practices in a row and Yovicsin was able to say "if this keeps up we might even be ready for Lehigh Saturday." To one who had been hearing nothing but the gloomiest of reports on this year's varsity eleven such hopeful words smacked of gross folly...