Word: messiahs
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Completing the program of carols will be "Alleluia" and "On Christmas Night." Then Bach's famed chorale with violin obligate "My Soul There Is a Country" will be presented. The organ postlude, played by Woodworth, will be the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...
...Davis, looking 20 lb. overweight in flat heels and the inevitable spectacles) and Mrs. Henry Windle Vale ( Gladys Cooper, whose discreet, sociologically exact portrayal of the mother is the best thing in the film). Claude Rains, in a role reminiscent of upper-class New England's late Psycho-messiah Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, helps Charlotte escape from Boston and mother by taking a cruise. On shipboard Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid), a voyaging architect, takes the cure a step further by falling in love with Charlotte. By the time she gets home, Charlotte is ready to give mother a complex...
...years he was secretary general of the Congress party, three times its president and, next to the half-naked Mahatma (Great Soul) Gandhi, the most powerful figure in India's political life. As a sensitive liberal and a world statesman, Nehru has outgrown the shadow of his overage Messiah. But Gandhi, self-willed, self-made symbol of the Hindu peasant, has clamped Nehru's feet to India. It was Nehru the disciple, not Nehru the internationalist, who returned once more to jail...
...Mary Baldwin-College for Women, Staunton, Virginia, the Sodality will present as its main feature Debussy's "Blessed Damozel." Winding up its tour on Wednesday, at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia, it will join the Sweet Briar and Duke Glee Clubs in a presentation of Handel's "Messiah...
...earlier volumes, Josephus and The Jew of Rome, the nationalist in Josephus succumbed to the internationalist. A young Jewish rebel, he came to recognize the invincibility of Rome, ended the Jewish revolt by proclaiming the Emperor Vespasian as the Messiah. Josephus went to Rome, became a Roman knight and official historian of the Flavian dynasty, spent the rest of his life trying to move Mount Zion and the Capitoline Hill closer together. Result: he was distrusted by the Jews, never accepted by the Romans. But Rome, tolerantly skeptical in religious matters, showed him no official hostility...