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...sentiment for Latin turned up as well in a recent letter to the London Times, signed by 80 international figures, including Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, Author Graham Greene, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Opera Singer Joan Sutherland. The Latin rite, they argued, "belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians...
...hands linked like oldtime Follies girls. Such artists as Mezzos Elaine Bonazzi and Frederica von Stade, Baritone Theodor Uppman and Tenor John Wakefield seemed wasted in their brief roles. Choreographer José Limon certainly knows all there is to know about Spanish tradition and dancing. But even his fertility rite dance in Act III succeeded in looking barren. Musically, Yerma is compelling. But as a dramatic experience, in Santa Fe, Yerma remained yermo...
...Maguire thought, would at least speed up his laicization request, and he went ahead with plans to marry his fiancee, a pretty C.U. doctoral candidate, Marjorie Reiley, 29. Invitations went out for an early summer wedding. At the last minute, still without word from Rome, the couple canceled the rite itself and replaced it with a Mass and a reception...
...This requires a dispensation from the obligation of celibacy as part of a "rescript of laicization." The decree makes the priest, for all practical purposes, a layman, relieving him both of his obligations and priestly functions. Technically, he is a "priest forever" according to the ordination rite, and laicization deprives him only of the licit use of his powers, not the powers themselves. In emergencies, laicized priests are permitted to use their priestly faculties, for instance to give absolution to a person in danger of death...
THAT annual rite of fall-the struggle over who should represent China in the United Nations-used to be fairly predictable. In past sessions, the drama has swirled around the so-called Albanian resolution, which offers the U.N.'s 127 members a simple choice: Taipei or Peking. This year, with the U.S. not only dropping its opposition to Peking's entry but working for the seating of both governments, the delegates will be able to vote for one or the other -or for both...