Word: mass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another unprecedented citation, the trustees of Columbia University gave the biography award to a member of Congress, Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), for his "Profiles in Courage...
...interesting that the Church should let pass numerous cheap, fallacious films, and rise in arms against a film which has the immediate stigma of being "arty" and thus slightly distasteful to the mass of the moviegoing public. Whether one approves of the Kazan-Williams viewpoint or not, Baby Doll is as intensely serious and thoughtful a film as the American cinema has ever produced. A continuing condemnation of frank and disturbing films may be a further push along the road to a thoughtless mediocrity in the mass media...
Killmayer: Missa Brevis and Harrison: Mass (Margaret Hillis conducting the New York Concert Choir and Orchestra; Epic). The Fromm Music Foundation, joint sponsor with Epic records of the excellent Twentieth Century Composers Series, takes a look at current choral writing. Young (29) Munich-born Composer Wilhelm Killmayer's Missa Brevis ripples with exciting, shifting rhythms and rises skillfully to a colorful series of blasting choral climaxes occasionally more reminiscent of the bandstand than the choir. Oregon-born Composer Lou Harrison, 39, found the inspiration for his moving, low-pitched Mass in the percussion-accompanied plain song of the Indians...
...Father Kelly in the Homiletic & Pastoral Review. "But there is plentiful mixing of truth and error in his preaching on these points." And Kelly complains that Evangelist Graham leaves out entirely such cornerstones of the Catholic faith as the mediating power of the Virgin Mary, the sacrament of the Mass, the necessity of Baptism, and the unity of the church. "Billy's teachings about the Church are not the same as Christ's teachings...
...Periscope. In Danvers, Mass., a woman patient at the state mental hospital, who once worked willingly as a part-time attendant, began taking tranquilizers and decided she should be paid...