Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next day the Express apologized; it had discovered that, while many Britons are used to the "trespasses" version in the Book of Common Prayer, the most-used version from the King James Bible (Matthew 6:12) is "debtors...
...Says he: "Beethoven can be adapted, but I don't like to - it's so perfect." With the air of a man piously renouncing a chance for a fast buck he adds: "I'd never touch Bach. There are a couple of themes in the St. Matthew Passion and the Magnificat -but I wouldn't touch them...
Died. Perry Belmont, 96, son of Banker August Belmont, grandson of Commodore Matthew Perry, onetime Congressman from New York (1881-89), onetime U.S. Minister to Spain (1888-89); in Newport...
...music, not as the bourgeois Swiss or Americans listen to it, but as a source of escape from squalor and misery into the beauty that only music under such conditions can provide. All over Germany last week hungry, tired, confused little people were listening to the Passions according to Matthew and John of Bach crowding into unheated churches and into dark cathedrals with boarded windows. They began during mid-afternoon (so people could get home before the subways closed at 9:30) and continued as night fell with everything finally pitch dark but the candles for the musicians...
...Matthew: He is not here; for he is risen, as he said...