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...recently in a Hum 5 lecture, Harvard's One True Wise Man eloquently reduced Martin Luther's 95 Theses to anal compuslion. My thoughts scattered as he pushed on to Luther's other obsessions. Luther's essay on The Pagan Servitude of the Church reminded me of the unholy mess the Harvard Corporation has made of the Engelhard Library controversy. The Capitalist Servitude of the University was pointed out clearly last semester by Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) member Joe Schwartz, who said: "The church stopped selling indulgences in the Middle Ages, but the Harvard Corporation wants to ressurect that...
...other press coverage retained, at least implicitly, the idea that the U.S. should intervene. The cultural blindness that led to press coverage that either ignored the cultural roots of the Iranian protest movement or to the belittling of it, resigned the U.S. to the task of leading the pagan out of the wilderness. But missionaries--cultural or religious--do not convince, they provoke...
...pagan celebrations, which had gone on for millenniums, continued for centuries after the birth of Christ. It was to steer the energies of the celebrants into more pious channels-so says Francis X. Weiser, S.J., in The Christmas Book that the church in the 4th century picked, as Christmas Day, exactly the date that signaled the end of the Roman Saturnalia. The origin of the celebrations at least raises the question of which came first, seasonal malaise or the celebrations? Could it be that the rituals cure far more gloom than they precipitate? Surely such issues should not be abdicated...
...Irina Arkhipova, Baritone Anatoly Mokrenko, Narrator Boris Morgunov, Ambrosian Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti, conductor; Angel; 2 LPs). This oratorio, arranged from Prokofiev's score for Eisenstein's two-part Ivan the Terrible film, makes splendid melodrama. Muti conducts a dashing blend of ominous march rhythms, pagan-sounding brass flourishes and pealing Russian bells...
...humility, directness and lack of pomp immediately endeared him to masses of people in a media age, as if they had befriended him by wire. "I felt that if I had a problem, I could go to this Pope and talk to him about it," said Father John T. Pagan of New York's Little Flower Children's Services. For many he seemed to rekindle singlehanded some half-lost feeling of goodness about the church...