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Sergei Prokofiev was an established musical revolutionary of 26 when the Bolsheviks spread flame and famine across Russia in 1917. He had outjangled Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his pagan Scythian Suite, startled St. Petersburg's musical society with the thudding energy of his piano pieces. When he wanted to-as he showed in his Classical Symphony -he could write with sweet simplicity. But he seldom cared to prove it. "I believe," he wrote, "that it is a mistake to favor musical simplification...
Millions of U.S. moviegoers have seen the $6,500,000 epic Quo Vadis. In the 15 months since its release, the Technicolored spectacle of pagan Rome has become the third biggest grosser*-$10,500,000-in movie history...
With the publication of My Host the World, only a set of poems which Santayana once described as "pagan" has yet to join his 27 other books on the printed shelf. When it does so (probably next fall), Santayana's name, like his life, will have settled down into its narrow,' and perhaps predestined, niche...
Blood Lines & Appetite. The Abenlens, says Dr. Ellinger, are among the last remnants of a race that crossed a land bridge from Southeast Asia 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. They are reserved and antisocial, and may never have intermarried with their neighbors. They are still pagan, illiterate and rumored to be cannibals who make drinking cups from human skulls and eat the hearts and livers of their victims...
...Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, its Gregorian-style chorus and skirling reeds sounding massive and almost pagan...