Word: romane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ineffectual in confronting the bizarre cults that were proliferating in the U.S. long before tragedy struck at Jonestown? The Evangelical Protestants and the Fundamentalists have been waging ideological hand-to-hand combat with them, as have Jewish groups (which are fending off Christian evangelists at the same time). But Roman Catholicism and the more liberal Protestant denominations have settled for polite discourse, though they, too, mistrust the cults...
...make these reproductions? ask the defenders. Doesn't copying have a long history? Doesn't all we know of some lost Greek sculptures comes from Roman copies of the originals? Didn't Rubens copy Titian, and Delacroix Rubens, and so on down the history of art? Perfectly true: but in every case an artist was doing the copying and the result was another work of art. There is no relationship between the copies Rubens made, in the high humility of his mature age, in order to keep learning from Titian, and the mass production of plastic Egyptian...
...hour public meetings last week. To standing ovations from the 300-member audience, critics flailed the IRS for taking so broad-gauged an action without the authority of new legislation, and for so broadly threatening religious schools. Ironically, even huge and integrated school systems like that run by the Roman Catholic Church, whose minority students nationwide average 16% enrollment, feared that their tax exemptions might nevertheless be endangered as a result of statistical quirks. As U.S. Catholic Conference Spokesman William Wonderly pointed out, "The IRS is mixing apples and oranges, because parochial schools are not arranged on public district boundaries...
...this secular age, God is not very popular among composers. One notable exception is Krzysztof Penderecki, 45, a Polish Roman Catholic. He has written a St. Luke's Passion (1966), Dies Irae, an oratorio for the victims at Auschwitz (1967) and a Magnificat (1974). For the past four years, Penderecki (pronounced Pen-de-ret-ski) has labored on a huge, lofty project: recasting Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, into an opera. But last week, in its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Penderecki's huge effort failed to justify the ways...
...centuries after the birth of Christ. It was to steer the energies of the celebrants into more pious channels-so says Francis X. Weiser, S.J., in The Christmas Book that the church in the 4th century picked, as Christmas Day, exactly the date that signaled the end of the Roman Saturnalia. The origin of the celebrations at least raises the question of which came first, seasonal malaise or the celebrations? Could it be that the rituals cure far more gloom than they precipitate? Surely such issues should not be abdicated entirely to social pathologists...