Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. He grew up in a cultivated literary and artistic world not remarkable for its piety. Both his parents, however, were attentive Catholics, and from boyhood, as John LaFarge remembers, "the idea of being a priest came to me naturally." He did not let his secular education (Harvard '01) nor his promise as a concert pianist interfere. At 21, he went to Innsbruck to study for the priesthood...
Written by the Restoration dramatist William Congreve and set by Handel in 1743, the work has since been converted into a secular oratorio, and excerpts from it are often heard. But the Musical Society's presentation of the operatic version will be the first such performance in this country...
...still a large portion of the population . . . who claim the right to think, behave and worship as they please, yet require the ministrations of the Church at marriages, baptisms and burials. [I maintain] that those who have ceased to worship with the Church . . . should celebrate their vital crises under secular auspices...
...more clarity than a booming mass chorus and far more power than the usual smaller ensemble. In three intricate chansons by Debussy and three more by Ravel, his singers performed with gymnastic precision. Finally they went on to the first U.S. performance of Bela Bartok's exotic secular cantata, The Enchanted Deer, and handled it with perfect form and ease...
Very much." To decent, secular folk like the Dunns and their friends, this is as unnerving as having poison ivy or termites about the place. Pressing Peter for details, they learn that the vision was rather like a person, that its message was love, and that they must join him at the same hilly spot for a repeat miracle...