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...search for causes of the violence in Brussels went on, those touched by the tragedy made an effort to come to terms with their feelings. At a Requiem Mass held in Liverpool's Roman Catholic cathedral, the Archbishop of Liverpool, Derek Worlock, summed up the feelings of shocked and puzzled citizens. "If it comes to responsible human conduct and moral behavior," he said, "the answer lies in ourselves." At a service held in a hangar at a Brussels military airport on Saturday, Belgian Prime Minister Martens paid his final respects to 25 of the riot victims. He spoke...
...back to Texas, state of his birth, on a self- assigned mission to spread the Word. This he did on street corners in Houston, as well as in any flyblown chapel of bedrock fundamentalism that would hear him out. Now and then, you would catch him in the papers (requiem for a heavyweight, that sort of thing), but for the most part the fighter kept his head down. Four years ago, he erected the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, twelve pews in a little metal prefabricated building on an acre of Houston ground. The church will seat...
...Chess is in U.S. record stores, competing for attention with Lloyd Webber's latest composition, Requiem. In one Tower Records outlet in Manhattan, a captious music fan has written on the Requiem place mark: WATCH OUT, WEBBER--TIM RICE'S MIDDLE NAME IS SALIERI. Rice laughs off the barb; he disclaims any hostility toward his former colleague, even as he stifles persistent rumors of a reunion. "Andrew and I had eight or ten years together that were enormously successful and great fun. But now it's been eight or ten years since we wrote our last show, Evita...
...combat, including a reasonable expectation of congressional and public support, which are more restrictive than those of Secretary of State George Shultz. Some critics complained that by Cap's criteria, U.S. power would be unsheathed only in guaranteed no-lose situations. In part the speech was the military's requiem for Viet Nam. But viewed in another way, which Weinberger doubtless did, it was also a warning to reserve the use of armed force to occasions worthy of Churchillian fire and vision...
...MOZART: REQUIEM (L'OISEAU-LYRE). Christopher Hogwood fervently leads Musicologist Richard Maunder's new edition of the unfinished masterpiece...