Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among other things, the cardinals insisted that the catechism reflect the traditional interpretation of Mary's virginity as a biological rather than just a symbolic reality and that its discussion of birth control present "the full teaching of the Holy...
Nursery rhymes, too, began to reflect man's growing lunar interest. One, printed in 1805, even closely anticipated Apollo 8's timetable...
Quite apart from its total inability to reflect the intellectual nuances of the Kazantzakis novel, Zorba the Greek, the musical is infinitely inferior, point for point, to the 1964 Michael Cacoyannis film, with its powerful evocation of fierce joys and harsh sorrows against the spare Greek landscape. Anthony Quinn was possessed by the title role; Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the part like a rented room. Quinn had the sexual assurance of a goat; Bernardi talks up lust as if he were a barker for a snake-oil remedy. Zorba has to be-as Quinn was and Bernardi...
Holding my program like a chalice, I silently recited the catechism of all music reviewers: music reviewing is the art of conjuring penetrating irrelevancies with intractable grace. The severely controlled lyricism and hieratic sonorities of the Stravinsky Mass brought me to reflect on the decline of Western monisms into a congeries of mercanto-ecclesiastical hoaxes. This work could well be the last great Mass ever written. The Society's performance possessed a certain Antarctic charm completely devoid of devotional feeling, but was plunged into obliquy by mispronunciation in the Kyrie (Keer-eiyeh) and the sinusoidal vibrato of the soprano...
Died. Wendell Corey, 54, character actor and political activist; of a liver ailment; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Corey's blue eyes could reflect the dementia of a paid killer (The Big Knife) or the dedication of a tough-talking psychiatrist (NBC-TV's The Eleventh Hour), and his career encompassed nearly 40 films and TV shows in 21 years. Offscreen, he was one of Hollywood's most ardent Republicans, campaigned tirelessly for Fellow Actor George Murphy's election to the Senate and was himself elected to the Santa Monica city council...