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...such slums in Rio with a population of 900,000. All year long the favelas are the city's blight; cops venture through some of them in cautious pairs by day, clear out altogether at night. But one night a year-the second night of pre-Lenten Carnival-the poverty-ridden, hungry world of shacks brings Rio a matchless show of gaudy costumes, music, dancing and gaiety unrestrained...
...festival, Hungary's Fasching was traditionally a time to blow off steam before the onset of Lent's rigors. It was banned by Hungary's Red rulers. But now, with their tolerance, Farsang (pronounced for-shong), is making a comeback-not so much as a pre-Lenten spree as a chance to escape the austerity of everyday life under Communism. Explained one blonde merrymaker: "We celebrate from the morning after New Year's right through Lent, and on to Easter...
Quirky Themes. Commissioned by the city of Mainz to celebrate its 2,000th anniversary, Hindemith's new cantata is scored for three vocal soloists, a chorus and orchestra, and is based on the Fastnacht, or pre-Lenten festival, for which Mainz is famous. The text, partly by Hindemith and partly by Playwright Carl Zuckmayer, has the soprano and tenor soloists singing only in Mainzer dialect while the baritone sings in high German. Soprano and tenor are supposed to be watching an imaginary Fastnacht procession passing before them as they face the audience, and in the roles of low comics...
Contrasting the registration of students in this fall's program with the enrollment of church members in a series of Lenten seminars offered last spring, Mumma says: "When we do a thing within the religious community our response is not as good as when we open it to the University as a whole...
...months the cardinal has fumed be cause Gomulka failed to convene a long dormant committee on church-state relations intended to review political harassment of religious activities. Finally, in a series of Lenten sermons, Wyszynski sharply criticized the regime in two at tacks on state-sponsored atheism, a third on birth control and the Polish system of legal abortion. For good measure, he condemned the party-controlled press for "throwing mud at our priests'" by publishing the lurid "confessions" of unfrocked clerics...