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...them, the hymn Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven, has been selected by Princess Elizabeth as the opening hymn at her wedding. † To the tune composed by William Henry Monk, first musical editor of the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern...
Fledgling Literary Critic William Barrett wondered whether his brethren had not been too quick to assume that the U.S. would eventually grow up and produce a culture of its own. Barrett recalled what a French monk in Carthage had told him when he looked in vain for relics of Carthaginian art: "They had none. They were not artists. They were business people . . . the Americans of antiquity...
...this formidable view, a British monk called Pelagius† took flat exception. Augustine's austere teachings, he felt, would inevitably lead man into a fatal moral apathy. Instead, he argued that all men have the free will to earn their own salvation by good works. Grace, said Pelagius, consists simply of man's natural gifts, God's forgiveness of sins to the baptized, and His issuance of instructions and examples...
...many at the auction, Doré's paintings looked like tremendously outsized Sunday school chromos darkened by varnish and dirt. In the general murk, Moses could be discerned gesticulating at Pharaoh, a sad-faced monk daydreamed over an organ, pagan gods fell in a heap beneath a cross, and Paolo and Francesca embraced in hell. Critics wondered how the great illustrator could possibly have turned out such daubs...
...Massenet's Thaïs, 33-year-old Edis, trained in the bel canto tradition, revealed a good dramatic soprano voice, whose only major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate...