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Meanwhile, some of Sessions' early compositions, e.g., the "modernist symphony" and The Black Maskers (1923), have already passed from the realm of the fiendishly difficult to the comparatively easy, and seven of his works, including Symphony No. 2, are on LPs. He would not mind if the process continued. "Of course I would like my music to be liked by a great many people," he says. "It just doesn't work out that...
...practiced by the Carmelites, took place during the Dark Ages of history . . . Whether one believes in Mother Nature, the process of evolution, or God, logic tells us that our purpose in life is not to castigate . . . and punish ourselves in order to attain a state of being outside the realm of man's experience, but to live according to the times with healthy outlooks both of clear mind and sound body...
...truly overwhelming proportions"-to find its own synthesis between faith in progress and awareness of its limitations; to learn "how to inquire into the nature and destiny of man in a new way ..." The new way will lie not in "adjustment" to the outer world, but in the realm of man's inner world, which links him mysteriously and universally to his fellow men. Yet, in turn, this vision of spiritual (rather than merely social) brotherhood did not lead Davenport toward mysticism. Right reason is still man's supreme weapon: "The Thomist doctrine, that Reason is the handmaiden...
Lights does more deep and tender credit to the human race than this one. Like a penny in the gutter, a heart catches the light. It isn't much, and there are millions like it, but it's coin of the realm, and only a proud child, no matter what his age, will pass...
...University falls to live up to its obligations, its failing is presumably within the realm of alumni concern," Peabody said...