Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intrepid indeed of St. Paul . . . to declare that hope should stand along with love," says Dr. Menninger, and lays it largely to Paul's Jewish background of hope in a Messiah. Then Martin Luther: "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope...
...Corporation of America, George Marek, 57, ranks as the world's biggest musical merchandiser. In the fiercely competitive, $400 million (retail) record market, Victor claims 25% of total sales. On the Christmas-trade counters last week Victor was pushing both a new Beecham version of Handel's Messiah and the Ames Brothers, a recording of Archibald MacLeish's J.B. and Elvis Presley's newest but possibly fading wails (see SHOW BUSINESS). Marek himself is a dedicated opera lover (among his books: The World Treasury of Grand Opera, an excellent biography of Puccini), but he is also...
...Sharon, an alcoholic prison counselor, and Hastel Desai, a diabetic inmate. This method creates a bifocal picture of Southern State Penitentiary at Creighton and its chief inhabitants, the most important of whom is "the treatment man," an assistant warden and psychologist who is symbolically named Pryor. Also called the Messiah, he is a vaguely evangelical figure with a jade ring and an MG, who keeps most of the inmates under his Freudian thumb. As the story flickers between Convict Desai and Counselor Sharon, it is clear that there are flaws in Psychologist Pryor's penmanship. For one thing, what...
...opposed to most aspects of modern life, including military service, voting, movies and TV, mixed gatherings of men and women. They live in self-imposed ghettos, speak only Yiddish since they consider Hebrew sacred and reserved for prayers. Their opposition to Israel rests on two beliefs: 1) only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state, and any human attempt is sacrilegious: 2) the Israeli government is offensive to God for such practices as putting women in military service, secular education...
...Have equaled this harmonious boar," wrote one acquaintance in reference to his overeating), Germany's Handel became a symbol of beefy British solidity. Since his death, he has often been thought of as a kind of stodgy musical ecclesiastic, partly because of the ceremonial repetition of his Messiah, partly because of Handel's own susceptibility to mawkishly awkward texts-most notably in the numerous bird songs like "Hark! 'Tis the linnet and the thrush" in Joshua...