Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armies of Tin Soldiers!" Equally brimming with Spanish passion last week in Madrid was its Defense Junta head, bald General Jose Miaja who at first tried to keep his Red Militia from growing over confident at their success northeast of Madrid in driving Italian Rightists back nearly 20 miles (TIME, March 22). The General by last week had toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja...
...competition with Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
Brazil nuts and buttermilk, inquired what the Church's annual Easter pageant was to be. Usually it was a work called Lord of Life but, as the current Zion souvenir program relates, "When God's clock struck the hour for the presentation of Zion Passion Play, He had ready a young man." That young man was Elder Jabez Taylor, now 29, one of the Community's twelve ordained ministers. Having discovered he hated to preach, "Jay" Taylor had taken to directing church plays, and for Overseer Voliva he worked up a Passion Play which cost...
...Best performance in four years", enthused G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Glee Club, last night after the four hour "St. Matthew Passion" by the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Temporarily deprived of his position as conductor by Dr. Koussevitzky, Woodworth was consoled after the performance by the gift of a framed photograph of the combined clubs, given by several Radcliffe members...
...Albert Schweitzer's description of this work is one of the very best and is here quoted: "The story of the Passion is cast in a series of pictures. At the characteristic points the narrative breaks off and the scene that has just passed is made the subject of a pious meditation. This is effected in arias that are usually led up to by an arioso-like recitative. At minor resting points the feelings of the Christian spectators are expressed in chorale verses...