Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of one man embodied so completely all religious experience as does that of J. S. Bach. In the scores of his Passions and Masses are infused the mysticism, the love, and the exaltation of Christianity, with the devotion and piety of Bach's own nature. The great B minor Mass especially expresses no narrow sectarianism, is not devoted to the Lutheran or the Roman Catholic Church, but to the universal Church of God. Truly, if, as Henry Adams has said, Chartres Cathedral represents the Church architectural, and the work of St. Thomas Aquinas the Church intellectual, then...
...works their own greatness of spirit. The Easter music from "Parsifal" likewise, for all its magic, seems mere tour de force, coloristic effect, next to the Mass; Wagner was concerned chiefly with recreating the atmosphere of legend and not with creating a setting for Christian devotion. The Bach B minor Mass is, in fact, a unique work. Consequently, its performance next Sunday by the Harvard Glee Club (under Mr. Woodworth) and the Boston Symphony Orchestra is an event not to be missed...
...departure of Canadian officers (one of whom was his brother-in-law and another his private secretary) for service in World War II. In Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who recently spanked U. S. Minister Cromwell, took Mr. Conant to the woodshed, declared that no nondescript utterances of minor officials abroad could influence U. S. foreign policy...
...Franklin Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium show called "How the World Will End&"-following a news broadcast, with no mention of Jack Benny. Result: a minor panic in the City of Brotherly Love, jammed switchboards, perspiring cops, an editorial rebuke from the Philadelphia Inquirer. * Princeton University Press...
Like Hemingway's definition of guts ("grace under pressure"), the true test of urbanity is staying power. By that test, "Elizabeth" is one of civilization's minor triumphs. For readers of her 20th novel, Mr. Skeffington, will find themselves firmly taken in by the same diverting, lightly troubling, perfectly delicate and occasionally outrageous wit that distinguished Elizabeth and Her German Garden 42 years ago and The Enchanted April 24 years later...