Word: paganism
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...Dramatic club has found an excellent subject for the inauguration of its new four-production-a-year program, which allows of a broader choice and increased opportunity to present works not seen on the conventional and commercialized stage. "The Family Reunion" is a resolution in modern form of the pagan, classical theme of the curse of the Eumenides through the Christian ideas of expiation and purgation. Harry, Lord Monchensey, is fated to bear the curse placed upon his family for the sins of his ancestors. His flight from the three Eumenides who represent the curse leads him at last...
...Luther's "immanentism" (a God not transcendent but suffused through man and nature) drifted toward a neo-pagan pantheism...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) (Igor Stravinsky conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; Columbia: 8 sides). The spine-tingling bumps & bleats, grumps & groans of Stravinsky's ballet of pagan Russian rituals caused a near-riot in Paris in 1913. Stravinsky, ordinarily an indifferent conductor of his own works, had an off-night in Manhattan last spring, went to town with the Philharmonic and Le Sacre. Here he repeats the performance, with well-recorded results...
...great imperial shrine of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami at Ise, the Mecca of Shintoism, declares that "every Japanese should go ... for it is a holy place." When Bishop Abe was raised to the episcopate last October, wrote Mr. Fey, "almost his first act was to visit a pagan shrine for worship...
...Alfred Rosenberg, who began life as a drawing teacher and is now chief mystagogue of National Socialism, spends much of his time in private sanatoria. He dreams of a vast Germanic-pagan world in which Teutonic supermen live in ideological bliss. Rational Germans, few of whom possess the Nordic qualities he extols, call him "The mad prophet of Teutonic superiority." Sanatorium wardens tap their heads and whisper "Vogel im Kopf" (bats in the belfry). When Fellow Dreamer Adolf Hitler sees occasion, however, he often revives Comrade Rosenberg from his traumatic reveries and uses him for launching a trial balloon into...