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...Social Saviour. To see the Met open its 77th season, the audience paid a record-breaking $94,294.50 at the box office, with orchestra seats going for $45 apiece and an eight-seat box for $650. The crowd was enthusiastic, glittering (inveterate Social Moth Hope Hampton, a onetime operatic hopeful, appeared splattered with sequins, chinchilla and diamonds), but, as Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker reminded his readers, scarcely Top Drawer. The Old Guard, as opposed to Publiciety, celebrates the opening on the second Monday of the season. What saved the night socially, according to Knickerbocker, was the presence of Labor Secretary Arthur...
Mascot or Saviour? At the end of the lecture, his audience had expected Earth to announce his successor-Dr. Helmut Gollwitzer, Professor of Systematic Theology at West Berlin's Free University. But instead, he peered owlishly at his audience and said: "My successor, Mr. X or Mr. Y, will not be here in time for the next semester, so it has been decided that I'll have to do a little more work this winter. In view of my age, however, I'll be doing even less than I have done so far -one hour of ethics...
...Christianity and burst forth in many forms during the church's first 1,000-odd years. Gnosticism, Manichaeanism, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and the Albigenses all had basic characteristics in common: 1) rejection of the world of matter as a trap imprisoning the divine "spark," 2) the concept of the Saviour as a heavenly being merely masquerading as human to bring salvation to 3) the elect, who often have to conceal themselves from the world, and who are set apart by 4) their special knowledge and personal purity (sexual intercourse is usually forbidden as serving the ends of the evil creator...
Christ as Saviour seems to have frightened Murry and he found the idea of physical resurrection "horribly shocking," though he admits that G. K. Chesterton once told him "that I have no right to limit my conception of reality and of God to that which does not shock me." Christ's last terrible cry on the cross ("My God. my God, why hast thou forsaken me?") strikes Murry as "the agony of foreboding that the God in whom he had believed and trusted did not exist, after all. God was beyond even his understanding. He had taken the risk...
...half the civilian population resented the officers' attempt on Hitler's life on June 20, 1944. Says Shirer: "National Socialism, notwithstanding the degradation it had brought to Germany and Europe, they still accepted and indeed supported, and in Adolf Hitler they still saw the country's saviour." But General Blumentritt's remark might be interpreted another way: that up to half of the civilian population had so much of Hitler or of war that they did not resent the attempt to assassinate their country's leader in the midst...