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...crowd of over 16,000 turned out to hear "A Living History of Jazz," with John McLellan as narrator and the Herb Pomeroy jazz band as illustrator. McLellan's commentary had plenty of meat but was not too technical for the layman. He gave a splendid survey of the origin of jazz, its evolution into a craft and finally an art-form...
Earnest Yearnings. Baring-Gould has more than 130 books to his credit. His sermons alone fill more than 20 volumes. He wrote a 16-volume Lives of the Saints and a weighty treatise on the Origin and Development of Religious Belief that moved Prime Minister Gladstone to award him a crown living (an ecclesiastical appointment at the dispensation of the government). He also wrote 30 novels plus stories and character sketches; he was an active archaeologist, and he busily searched out and transcribed old country songs and ballads, e.g., Widdecombe Fair. He was a staunch High-churchman; there...
...have already incorporated Christian elements such as the concept of time as going somewhere. This notion of progress, of the future justifying the present, of a paradise for which today's effort must be directed, this division of ends and means which has created totalitarian ideology, is of Biblical origin. A Moscow Purge has more in common with a Catholic Inquisition to save souls, than a trial of Socrates for disturbing the polis...
...them have been fished out, and it is plain that Father Neptune was a first-rate curator. Among others, three bronzes, of a god a philosopher and a youth (opposite), came up looking little the worse for their long immersion, were sent back to the place of their origin, and are now on view at the National Museum in Athens...
...beyond a trickle of gold and ivory, the marauding chieftains of the interior had only human bodies to offer in trade was evidence of the real poverty of the people within-an ill-fed, disease-and fear-ridden race. To the African tribesman, whatever his ancestry or point of origin, the realities of life were pretty much the same all over the land. They consisted primarily of the village and the bush-the clearing in the forest where the tribal family had pitched its camp for a week or a day or a season, and the dark and hostile world...