Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The music of each man reflects his religious background. Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was a Catholic composer; Brahms (1833-1897) was essentially Protestant. In his choral music, Bruckner attempts to suggest the most sacred mysteries of the Catholic faith by manipulating chromatic harmonies which build towards thrilling climaxes. He is...
Ireland has traditionally been the graveyard of British political reputations. During his nearly two years as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw has occasionally sounded as if he too were headed for an early political demise. But last week Whitelaw ebulliently returned to Westminster with a diplomatic triumph...
The problem: how to fairly divide the executive spoils between the three moderate parties that together control the Assembly majority-former Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's Protestant Unionists, the Catholic-oriented Social Democratic and Labor Party and the nonsectarian Alliance Party.
Novel Sight. In the end, the dilemma was resolved by an ingenious arithmetical solution. Instead of the twelve-member executive council that Whitelaw had originally envisioned, he and the party leaders settled for an eleven-member coalition Cabinet. It will be headed by Protestant Faulkner as Chief Executive, and include...
The question now is whether the new executive body can keep up the spirit of compromise. Extremists on both sides predictably scorned the agreement. The Rev. Ian Paisley, a leader of the Protestant Loyalists, called it a "sellout."