Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLOCH: QUINTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS (Concert-Disc). Best known for his powerful and sensuous Hebraic music (Schelo-mo and Sacred Service), Bloch also wrote other works, like the 1923 quintet, that are not specifically of Jewish inspiration but are also lavishly colored and emotionally evocative. The floating violins of...
"Zones of Privacy." What roiled the court, however, was the question of whether to void a law based on the power of every state to regulate public morals. Speaking for the court, Justice William O. Douglas asserted that "we do not sit as a superlegislature," playing God with noxious laws...
Ninth Amendment implies a right of privacy by providing that "enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." So does the 14th Amendment guarantee of due process of law. Said Douglas: "Would we allow the police to search...
Three and a half centuries ago, the Vatican's Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office forbade the Italian Astronomer Galileo Galilei to "hold or defend" the Copernican theory, which Galileo's telescopes had verified, that the earth revolves around the sun rather than vice versa. Galileo stayed...
Feudalism in old Japan was so strict that lords could even dictate what color and what kind of clothing their serfs could wear. Craftsmen were restricted to certain specialized skills, such as carving, lacquering, throwing clay, screening silk. And during lifetimes of limited expression, they became surpassing experts at their...