Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called him, read Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, became a serious stripling who could blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister ("If you cry you will feel bad, and if you feel bad you will cry"). He could swim the 2½ miles across Henderson Bay, and when...
When Traude, dog-tired, asked her bosses to cut out the publicity and just let her quietly attend to her steel, they accused her of deviationism and Western sympathy. Two weeks ago, pretending to be a pilgrim to Berlin's Church Day (TIME, July 23), she skipped to the Western zone, went into hiding. Last week Traude asked Western authorities in Berlin for asylum. Explained the ex-labor heroine: "I just got sick and tired of the whole thing...
...composer with a lifelong interest in religion, Vaughan Williams had worked for two decades, off & on, at adapting his Pilgrim's Progress from John Bunyan's allegory. His admirers reported that Progress would summarize everything Vaughan Williams has said musically for the past 40 years...
Vaughan Williams himself calls Progress "a morality." He had picked out nine episodes from Bunyan's book, but none of them conveyed much drama or continuity of struggle. The staging was uninspired, and the Pilgrim (sung by Tenor Arnold Matters) wandered from the City of Destruction to Mount Sion like an unruffled country vicar...
London critics were respectful, but deprecatory. The Manchester Guardian complained that Vaughan Williams' Pilgrim "seems in some way outside the music." Most thought that Composer Williams had simply tackled a book, that was too symbolic and subjective for operatic treatment...