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...Mille, with tremendous success. Its greatness as a play as well as the freshness and pertinence of what it had to say made it instantly popular, and it was subsequently performed every year on the steps of the Cathedral at Salzburg as a sort of dramatic-religious festival. Although God, Death, the Devil and a host of other abstractions put in their physical appearance, it is more than a mere translation of the English 16th century original "Everyman." Hoffmannsthal has taken the bare outline of the old play, and molded it into a work not only dramatically satisfying, but also...
Ellenson drew a distinction between this position of “Liberal religion” with the Orthodox Jewish position that the Scripture is the literal word of God...
...museum gala nights satiate more than just her aesthetic appetite. “We love art,” she says, “but they also have champagne and strawberries. When we heard about the bubbly, we were like, ‘Oh my god, we’re so there...
...Brown chose for his text the words of God to Moses, commanding him to prepare for Mt. Sinai on the morrow...
...universally boastful, in 1926, having learned self-deprecation, he carries the same spirit into these declamations also. In the second place, the utterances themselves cannot but show what more or less esteemed Americans value for philosophical purposes. The list of topics is short. When one has named, "for God, for Country, and for Yale" there is little to add to this greatest of anti-climaxes, except perhaps "for virtue". Baccalaureat speakers are at their best in linking mid-Victorian triteness with modern Babbitry, in combining Puritanical platitudes with the poverty of provincialism...