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...Depravity. The Gnostics of early Christianity, who claimed to possess a "secret wisdom" left them by Jesus, argued that they were exempt from provisions of moral law, and for so believing were expelled from the church. The British monk Pelagius, who died around 418, in effect contended that man could achieve salvation by his own actions apart from God's gift of grace; he was formidably countered by St. Augustine of Hippo, who emphasized the utter depravity of man and the absolute necessity of Christ's death at Calvary for redemption...
Richard Rodgers' lyrical abilities do not come upto those of his former partners, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, but his songs possess a modern quality different from those he wrote with collaborators. The universality of many Rodgers and Hammerstein compositions (like South Pacific's "You Have to Be Taught") is missing in No Strings. Few of the songs, with the exception of the title song and "The Sweetest Sounds" are meaningful out of context...
Unfortunately, neither front seemed to possess the decisive magic. Though without bloodshed the result was essentially the same as last time: another deadlock. The Nationalists won one seat less than the Afro-Shirazis, but the People's Party's six seats were enough to keep the Nationalist coalition in control (18-13) of the expanded legislature...
...craving for music seems to possess the U.S. in the summertime. From coast to coast, Americans brave torrential downpours, smoggy traffic jams, cement seats, grass stains and mosquitoes to get within the sound of music. They seek it out in bosky glens and canopied pavilions, up on mountaintops and down in gulches, in abandoned cow pastures and deserted mining towns, on a riverbank beside a barge and in the middle of a city...
None of these "explanations" would satisfy Harvard College, or any of the other branches of Harvard University. If the Summer School is serious about them, its contempt for its students is enormous. In the eyes of the administration, Summer School students possess so little intelligence that they are incapable of benefiting from free discussion of public issues; the only activities suitable for them are Yard punches and mixer dances. In addition, the Summer School underestimates its own faculty when it claims that the menace of "unrepresentative" opinions comes only from outside the University. There are enough faculty members with controversial...