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...Catherine Muskett is too young to remember the day the Roman Catholic music died. The Latin prayers, the ethereal Gregorian chant--they were cast out of the Catholic Mass in the 1960s, after the modernizing church council known as Vatican II. But Muskett doesn't remember the '60s either. To her, today's perky folk-guitar Masses are more grating than groovy. "Catholics of my generation are starved for the real thing," she says. So each Sunday, she and her family drive half an hour to attend the Solemn High Mass, most of it in Latin, offered by St. Catherine...
...time when old religious rituals are being embraced anew by many faiths, Muskett is part of a retro-revolt among U.S. Catholics. The generation that not long ago pushed Gregorian chant into the Top 40 may now plant it back into the Mass. Since 1990, the number of U.S. Catholic dioceses allowing traditional Masses (in Latin or a mix of English and Latin) has leaped from six to 131--70% of the total. More than 150,000 people attend them each week...
...Director Christopher Miles has apparently confused action with sex, character with caricature. With Priest of Love, he achieves the impossible. He reduces the pathos of Lawrence last years, spent in exile and pain, to a cheap thrill. Lawrence and Freida leave England soon after the British censor. Herbert G. Muskett (John Gielgud) publicly burns available copies of The Rainbow by court order. They sail to American to seek refuge and patronage from Mabel Dodge Luhan (Ava Gardner), a wealthy rancher in New Mexico. At a party given by Mabel on her vast ranch. Miles reveals his perception of Lawrence...
Other signers: Herbert Hoover; Felix Muskett Morley, for three years a League of Nations employe, until recently editor of the Washington Post, now president of Haverford College; Joshua Reuben Clark, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to Mexico, and now, in effect, business manager of Mormon affairs with vast powers throughout the church's Rocky Mountain territory and national holdings; Alfred Mossman London; Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Hoover's Interior Secretary, president of Stanford University; Hoover's Minister to Canada, Hanford MacNider of Iowa; Hoover's Ambassador to Italy, Henry Prather Fletcher; Robert Maynard Hutchins, precocious president...
...Board chose another Haverford graduate (1915), born on the campus during President Comfort's senior year: Felix Muskett Morley, Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar, foreign correspondent, author and able editorial writer of the Washington Post. His father, Dr. Frank Morley, taught mathematics at Haverford and Johns Hopkins. His two brothers, Author Christopher (Kitty Foyle) and Book Publisher Frank, were also Rhodes Scholars-an alltime U. S. record for one family...