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...have had something in it of Elizabethan England (with its preoccupation with theology, place and power, and its spiritual ferment). To this was added a fantastic, ramshackle bureaucracy with bewhiskered officials dedicated to the ledgers of obscurantism. Gogol's own parents typified that society. His mother was a pious, eccentric ninny; his father a sometime bureaucrat in the chaotic Russian post office as well as the owner of 3,000 acres, 384 serfs and a vodka distillery...
Three times each day for the last 2,000 years, pious Jews standing in prayer have repeated these words. When Zionism made the "ingathering" a present political reality, the sound of the trumpets was often mixed with the sound of discord in Judaism. A major, though usually muffled conflict is taking place between the Jews of the U.S., who have supported the new state to the tune of over $100 million a year, and the Jews of Israel. Last week the conflict was audible in Jerusalem...
...many pious German devotees of Johann Sebastian Bach, the singing of the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, East Germany, is the voice of Holy Writ. The choir school, attached to Leipzig's famed Evangelical Lutheran Thomaskirche, proudly points to J. S. Bach's service as its cantor for 27 years (1723 to 1750), has long constituted itself chief guardian of his music. Last week the 80-boy choir made a sortie from behind the Iron Curtain. Occasion: the Bach Festival at Ansbach, West Germany. Critical verdict: St. Thomas' parade-drilled ten-to-18-year olds...
...proud Maronite Catholic clansmen of Zghorta. a mountain village famed for its fighting spirit since the days of the First Crusade, are as pious as they are touchy. When they are feuding-and that is most of the time-they are careful to go to church and ask God's help in aiming their guns, and even when they are on the run, they seldom miss Sunday Mass...
...Pious Protest. "Operation K" was what Communist Party members called the campaign against the church, and they overlooked no detail to make it more effective. Troops were ordered to see special indoctrination films on Sunday mornings to keep them from attending Mass. In many state restaurants and canteens, meat was served regularly on Friday, even if it was unavailable during the rest of the week. Religious processions were drowned out by jazz-blaring loudspeakers. Religious houses were closed (thousands of nuns took jobs to support their communities), and religious education in the schools was all but ended by harassment...