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Miss Rubin has devoted herself to the study of Jewish secular music for a number of years, and is considered an expert in this field. Her recital will trace the origin and development of Jewish music, from the ancient chants of the Levites, through the products of Eastern European Jewry, to the most modern Palestinian songs...
...oppression and church unity was frail Pastor Martin Niemöller, who after eight years in concentration camps is a leader of Germany's newly combined churches.* His presence helped the assembled churchmen to see that the Council's major objectives-upholding the Christian witness in the secular world, and uniting the Church of Christ-were really two different aspects of the same thing...
Most editors of the religious press seem to think it consists of denominational doings and sectarian social notes. After analyzing the content of 64 Protestant periodicals in the current issue of Christendom, Professor of Journalism Roland E. Wolseley concludes: "Although secular ... business journals are dedicated to the interests of their own groups, many of them, nevertheless, see the value of keeping their readers informed about the progress of the industry as a whole. Christianity is at least as international as business, yet we find many denominational weeklies and monthlies which in an entire 16- or 32-page issue will quite...
Dividing the whole field of secular learning into the three fields of accumulative knowledge, philosophy, and literature and the fine arts, President Conant went on to distinguish between "invention" and "scientific discovery" as separate phases of the area of "accumulative knowledge. Science," he emphasized, "emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations...
...Protestantism-it is a threat to America itself: [It] is a self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...