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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important Mohammedan doctrines. Beyond these, the theology of Islam is as bare of major furniture as the inside of a mosque. Mosques are often decorated with intricately patterned and endlessly repeated geometrical designs. Similarly, Moslem teaching runs on about the hours and posture for prayers, when and how to perform ablutions and other helpful hints on morals, ritual and etiquette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: THE MOSLEM WORLD | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...lives in a strongly Communist working-class district of Paris. As a priest, he worked as a ragman and a factory worker, only began to perform his priestly duties full time when his congregation asked him to. Writes Father Depierre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Voice in France | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Next Wednesday evening the 55 members of the Harvard Summer School Chorus will perform at Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m., and according to their director, Eliot Forbes, "my chorus sings better if there's a good audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorus Will Sing Modern, Baroque Music in Sanders | 8/9/1951 | See Source »

...neckties and T-shirts, bowling alleys, towering commercial hotels, overstuffed clubs buzzing with shoptalk and big deals. It is a city of salesmen, technicians and craftsmen, mechanics and makers of chemicals, furnaces, tools, dies and household appliances. Almost half of its employed population are the 320,000 workers who perform the automaton labor of the auto plants. They speak to the world through such trumpet-voiced agents as red-haired Walter Reuther-and speak so loud they are now among the best-paid workers in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Midwestern Birthday | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Koblenz keeps it largely a home-town production. The local Rhine Philharmonic, a 40-piece orchestra, is the musical backbone of the performance. Koblenz' young singers and budding ballerinas make up the cast of 200, and 40 strapping youngsters, male & female, of the Poseidon Swimming Club perform in the aquacade act. For the top roles, some talent had to be imported. Of one guest performer, a Koblenz official proudly reported: "Oh, he's first class. He sometimes even sings on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Koblenz Idea | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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