Word: orthodox
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cagily tested the Schillinger method on its summer students.* Behind its stately facade, soft-voiced, bespectacled Executive Director Arnold Shaw of the Schillinger Society gave the first Schillinger lecture in an American music school. His objective: to prepare 35 music teachers and students for 1950, when Schillingerites predict that orthodox composers will be old-hat and "pure music" will be created by music engineers on machines (like the Rhythmicon invented by Schillinger...
Glossy-haired, 46-year-old Dancer-Choreographer Massine, a veteran of at least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted...
...Before any permanent organization could be started, war came.) The World Council now includes some 88 denominations in 29 countries. Dr. Cavert hopes that he and his Geneva co-workers can: 1) visit Germany to discuss the place of German churches in the Council; 2) visit Eastern Orthodox churchmen in Greece; 3) study the reconstruction of European churches; 4) aid refugees. Says Sam Cavert: "I think I have the most interesting job in Protestantism...
...anyone who edits a prayer book be an atheist?" To stocky, white-haired Dr. Mordecai M. (for Menahem) Kaplan, 64, dean of the Teachers Institute of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, the question was rhetorical. But the Union of Orthodox Rabbis had a flat answer. For years the Union had regarded Dr. Kaplan with suspicion. Last week it came right out and called him an '"atheist...
Prayer Book, for which Dr. Kaplan had edited traditional prayers to give "modern Jews a form of worship in which they could participate. . . . Defying basic Orthodox tenets, Dr. Kaplan stated in his introduction that: i) Jews are not a divinely chosen people; and 2) the Torah is not "supernaturally inspired...