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Waugh was deepened by his religion, and the deepening was steeply apparent in Brideshead Revisited (1945), a lyric celebration of Catholicism that alternates pious puling with the loveliest cadences he ever came upon. He was broadened by the war, and the broadening was vigorously displayed in his masterpiece, a 972-page trilogy (Men at Anns, Officers and Gentlemen, The End of the Battle) which is now widely considered the best British novel of World War II. In the trilogy Waugh creates in Apthorpe his greatest comic character, a Falstaff as funny, as tragic, as human as the huge original...
...students are more pious, humble and industrious than the young men who study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. And perhaps no archbishop in the U.S. is more sympathetic to the plight of the meek than Boston's mercurial Richard Cardinal Gushing. Now students from St. John's Seminary,* barely a stone's throw from Cushing's residence, are rebelliously demanding reform. Cushing, suddenly stiff-necked, has expelled eight of them. The battle between liberal prelate and freedom-seeking students symbolizes one of the unresolved problems of the new spirit of freedom in the Catholic Church: reformation...
...turn out an unlimited quantity of high explosives. What this meant in chilling human terms is the burden of Chapman's fine book. It is grave and sardonic, but not extravagantly so, about staff officers and others who contrived cushy jobs out of the war; it is pious toward the dead, and the living are sketched cleanly in a line or two, unforgettably and unsentimentally...
Reverse Strike A hulking, meaty, headstrong man, the father of five children, Dolci is a complex of anomalies who seems to pious Italians a devious political crank, and to political reformers a man of exasperating otherworldliness who will fast and pray to get a road built...
Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...