Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Repertory Theatre) gets about the lightest treatment that Shaw ever gave to a serious subject. Thirty-three years ago he pilfered the fable of Androcles-who by being kind to a lion in the forest was spared when they met in the arena-to embroider it with comment on religion and early Christian martyrs. He wound up reducing the fable to a kind of farce...
...choirs and encouraged any outstanding singer in them. At 13, Marian was singing in the church's adult choir. She took home the scores, and sang all the parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) over & over to her family until she had learned them. Since work is also a religion to her, Miss Anderson considers this one of the most important experiences of her life. She could then sing high C like a soprano...
...Negro audience. She had insisted only that there should be no segregation in the seating. Nobody knows the trouble that an incident like this one causes to a spirit like Marian Anderson's. No doubt such things are in her mind when she says, with typical understatement: "Religion, the treasure of religion helps one, I think, to face the difficulties one sometimes meets...
Audiences who have heard Miss Anderson sing Crucifixion have sometimes been too awed to applaud. They have sensed that they are participants in an act of creation-the moment at which religion informs art, and makes it greater than itself...
...religion the Onas were Theists, believing in a supreme god, Temáukel, who lived "beyond the stars." He was rather indifferent to worldly affairs; they did not bother much about him either...