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...minds of ambitious politicians or those who chronicle them. (Ever seen a column called "Two Years to Utah"?) The federal grants and friendly phone calls pour in. Other primaries and caucuses--with the increasingly notable exception of Iowa--can be put off; but New Hampshire is mandatory, a rite of passage for unknowns and incumbent presidents alike. It gets real cold up there and snows a lot: the bones creak when you have to be up by six every morning to shake hands with stone-bored workers at some shoe factory...
Beethoven: The Five Middle Quartets (Cleveland Quartet, RCA; 4 LPs). As if to mark its artistic coming of age, this ten-year-old group is moving impressively through that phonographic rite of passage for string quartets, a Beethoven cycle. The dramatic works in this installment burst the molds of classicism and prepare the way for the somber spirituality of the last quartets. The performances-strong and probing-capture the paradox of the quartet form: a cohesive ensemble but seemingly spontaneous individual voices...
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia, 1970). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage modern classic...
...Great Schism between these two branches of Christianity is traditionally dated from mutual excommunications hurled in 1054 by Rome and Constantinople (as Istanbul was called until 1930). In 1204 Crusaders sacked Constantinople and temporarily installed a Latin-rite Patriarch. Today there are still differences about such matters as divorce (the Orthodox permit it on grounds of adultery and allow no more than three marriages in a lifetime), and especially the Nicene Creed. The Orthodox insist on the original wording of the creed, in which the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father." Catholicism adds that the Spirit proceeds from "the Father...
There are no Eastern-rite Catholic parishes left, the Metropolitan says. Despite reports in the West of 300 to 500 underground clergy, only "old priests and a few people" are left. Surprisingly, he declares that "the Soviet state is not an atheistic state. It consists of believers and nonbelievers. There are periods of strong antireligious propaganda and others of less...