Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance, the Chorus Pro Musica will join the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Russell Stanger will lead the group in the Christmas music of Handel's "Messiah," while Alfred Bash Patterson, director of the Chorus Pro Musica, will conduct Shutz's "Magnificat...
...dampen anyone's spirits, and it was most unfortunate that the H.-R. O. had to compete last week with hour exams. Since the group this year is composed entirely of Harvard-Radcliffe talent, local support is more important than ever. Next month's concert will feature Handel's "Messiah" and both music and musicians deserve a full house...
...Then came a tragedy which none of us had foreseen. The great First Century Rabbi Eliezer once said: 'The Messiah will never come until the Jewish people repent.' When they asked him, 'What if the Jews do not repent?' he answered: 'The Lord will raise up a king worse than Haman* to smite them, and then they will repent.' This is just what happened. Hitler was something we never thought possible...
...Aristotle: the belief in God's existence, in His unity, incorporeality, timelessness, and approachability through prayer; the belief in prophecy, in the superiority of Moses to all other prophets, in the revelation of the Law and its immutability, in Divine providence, Divine justice, the eventual coming of the Messiah; the belief in the resurrection and in everlasting life. He memorized the civil and canon law of the Talmud in great early-morning gulps, often leaving home at 5:30 a.m. to study in the synagogue before school. For at least an hour a day, with a rabbinical tutor...
...Culture of Bathrooms. Mumfordian man must not just look Mumfordwards. He must sense that the day is gone when millions could look to one great teacher for guidance. "The task of the individual Messiah . . . now devolves equally on all men"; tomorrow's model society must be a universal democracy of self-teachers. Candidates must begin not by enlisting in a party or signing a pledge, but by withdrawing into self-analysis and contemplation. Mumford realizes that a man can't just throw up his job and become a hermit, but he can "escape from [the] time cage...