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...were excerpts from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust, "Minuet of Will-o'-the-Wisps," "Dance of the Sylphs" and the "Rakoczy March," and sandwiched in between, featured, a U. S. work, given its first Manhattan performance in manuscript. Pan and the Priest it was called-Pan, the Pagan spirit of unfettered emotions, crossing swords in an endless battle with the Priest, meditative ascetic. Critics found it "striding with energy and lifted head, large- molded, full-throated," "excellent music for a feature film, to depict the struggle of the upper and lower natures of man. . . . concentrated noise," "displaying nothing...
...welter flash raucous snatches of prairie humor, vivid actions, scatterbrained flights of self-pitying, self-despising, pagan philosophy. The father looms as a monument of malicious, brooding egotism. Brother Tom is a semi-imbecile with a bulbous head, liquid eyes and great sensitivity; he married a Danish farm wench and went to Mexico City to found a socialist commonwealth...
...have been the Odin or Wodin of the Norsemen; also, human sacrifice among the Aztecs (not practiced by pre-Norse Moundbuilders). Finally, Mr. Brewer has completed the interpretation of the famed Aztec Calendar Stone, partially interpreted by Professor Valentini in 1875. This stone, found and buried as pagan by the Spanish in 1551, was unearthed in 1790 and embedded in the walls of the Metropolitan Cathedral ^ of Mexico City. About ten feet in diameter, shaped like a round shield, it was (according to Mr. Brewer) carved in 1090 A. D. to mark the reformation of the Moundbuilder-Aztec chronology upon...
Vast numbers on the Pagan Party gaze
...reported that: 1) Roman Catholic families, enjoined not to attend the cinema, have very widely eschewed the cinema houses which they individually patronized, but have sought others in parts of their cities where they are not known. 2) At Guadalajara many self-styled devout Roman Catholics, imperfectly converted from paganism, are to be seen on their knees in streets praying to Xochimilco, the pagan god of Mexico City's canal district, imploring him to loose floods upon President Calles as a punishment for the President's disrespect toward the Virgin of Guadalupe...