Word: requiems
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PERHAPS THE MOMENT of transcendence missing from this production--the moment when the burden of action falls on the audience, not a purgation but a punch to the jaw--is sabotaged by the presence on the same program of another work, The Berlin Requiem, which, as presented, is so starkly untheatrical that it makes you feel uncomfortable merely to be sitting in the theater. Hastily substituted for two Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music...
...funeral took place in a church only 100 yards from the site of the accident and was attended by 1,500 mourners, including both Catholics and Protestants. The majority of them were women. In his homily at the Requiem Mass, Father James Kelly told the congregation: "A broken heart was the cause of Anne's death. In truth she died four years ago." An even more tragic truth is that Mrs. Maguire's suffering was not at all exceptional. "There are hundreds of Mrs. Maguires in Northern Ireland whom you never hear about," said one mourner. "They...
Roman Catholic priest who served as president of the University of Notre Dame during its postwar expansion (1946-52) and who, as a friend and curate to the Kennedy family, said a Requiem Mass for the assassinated President at the White House in 1963; in South Bend...