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Organization Man. Blake's religious life at Princeton also had its traumatic side. Before Blake arrived in 1924, Frank Buchman-patriarch, prophet and founder (in 1938) of Moral Re-Armament-had swooped down on Princeton with what was later to be known as the Oxford Group, M.R.A.'s predecessor. Blake found the college seething with eager young men taking their friends to weekend "house-parties" to change their lives by "God-guidance" salted with public confession of teen-age sins...
...application, when it arrived, was signed by Moscow's Patriarch Alexis, and is almost certain to be approved by the necessary two-thirds of the 178 Christian bodies affiliated with the World Council at the meeting of its third General Assembly in New Delhi, India, next November. The total membership of the Russian Orthodoxy is vague-estimates vary from 25,000 to 50,000-but the application included some impressive statistics: 30,000 priests, 73 bishoprics, 20,000 parishes and 40 monasteries...
Running Scared. At first glance the odds seemed all in favor of Mo Udall. Both he and Stew are popular personally, and the Udall family is a sort of Arizona institution. The brothers' grandfather arrived in a covered wagon, became patriarch of a clan that spread throughout the state. The brothers' father grew up to become the state's chief justice. As a boy, Mo Udall had his right eye blinded in an accident with a knife but went on to win local fame as a star, 6-ft. 5 in. basketball forward at the University...
What matters more than the number of speakers, of course, is what comes out of them. Says Luigi Dallapiccola, the patriarch of the Italian twelve-tone school: "They already have vast technique. What they lack is ideas. Technical equipment is not important. When Beethoven wrote his piano sonatas, he anticipated the Steinway piano." Certainly the public still seems to appreciate the human touch. The biggest personal hit at Venice was U.S. Composer William Smith, a member of the original Dave Brubeck Octet. While his eight-minute electronic Improvisation, replete with amplified clarinet key clicks, breath noises, and echo chamber effects...
...testimony been "one long suffer." The suffer is apparent in the spare, abrasively powerful twelve-tone music that has flowed steadily from his pen through years of poverty, persecution and neglect. But Dallapiccola is neglected no longer: even his severest critics in Italy acknowledge his influence as the patriarch of the Italian twelve-tone school. Manhattan audiences last week had a first chance to hear one of the patriarch's finest works - the 13-minute Variations for Orchestra as performed by the visiting Boston Symphony under Guest Conductor Erich Leinsdorf...