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...novelty on the program was Kirk Mechem's amusing Rules for Behavior (1955). Effectively written, it shows much the same style and spirit as Irving Fine's Alice in Wonderland music. Also of recent vintage was "The Promise of Living" from Copland's opera The Tender Land. This warm work needs a slightly larger body of singers. The concert ended with Vaughan William's hearty Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, which wanted only a more robust accompaniment...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter William Van Kirk, 64, globetrotting head (since 1950) of the National Council of Churches' Department of International Affairs, co-founder (with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles) of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (1946), longtime (1925-50) executive secretary of the Federal Council of Churches' Department of International Justice and Goodwill, special adviser to the U.S. delegation at the founding (1945) of the United Nations in San Francisco, onetime (1934-49) popular radio commentator (NBC's Religion in the News) and sometime author (A Christian Global Strategy...
Grayson Louis Kirk, president of Columbia University LL.D...
With that hero gone, a few intellectuals like Historian Russell Kirk have tried to rehabilitate the conservative mind. Others have set to work redefining liberalism. Critic Lionel Trilling attacked the liberal idea that the only true reality is "material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant." It was this idea that kept so many liberals at perpetual war with respectable society, that led them to exalt Theodore Dreiser for his apparent social conscience and to forgive that conscience when he joined the Communist Party. "This is the liberal criticism," said Trilling, "which establishes the social responsibility of the writer...
...churchmen were equally aware of how sharply religion's role has been limited by the Communists. Said the Rev. Dr. Walter W. Van Kirk, head of the National Council's Department of International Affairs: "It's pathetic that the only role religion can play here is to help relieve the drudgery of life for the people from...