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Such are the arias of soap operas, day in and day out, on daytime television, the last outpost of the knitting brow and the purling organ. Once, nighttime TV was the only phase of programming that interested sponsors and networks; today, television executives are laughing on the other side of their phases...
...Trapetto, a no-hope town of 2,800, and improvised from day to day the program of action-religious, economic and political-that marks his movement today. He took on the Mafia, which controlled illegal trawler fleets that were robbing the local fishermen of their livelihood. He played the organ in church and criticized the parish priest for his refusal to allow barefoot children to attend Mass. He begged money for food for the starving. He tried to do something about the ancient stink of the picturesque airless houses and to stop children playing in the open sewers. He discovered...
Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...
...just because there is a need for reform, Gellhorn explained does not mean that the U.S. should definitely establish an office like the ombudsman. Some critical organ is necessary, he asserted, but this country has its own special problems...
...might well be called Just Like Them!, because Paul Revere and the Raiders put one in mind of so many other rock-'n'-roll groups, along with a dash of Dylan and a roll of Stones. But Paul, who comes from Portland, Ore., plays a rocking, rollicking organ, and the colonially clad quintet (seen on Where the Action Is) may make whole regiments of fans waver from their British alignments...