Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A gently satirical novel about the surprisingly secular problems of a fund-raising Roman Catholic priest, written with fondness and perception but, the Lord be thanked, not a trace of cuteness...
Morte d'Urban, by J. F. Powers. A gently satirical novel about the surprisingly secular problems of a fund-raising Catholic priest, written with fondness and perception but, the Lord be thanked, not a trace of cuteness...
...Bach, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, which is often played in Russia. "To me, they are wonderful creations, though they do not evoke religious feeling. Religious music contains great compositions, such as the requiems of Mozart and Verdi, but I do not take it as religious music-I take it as secular music." Asked how he now feels about his opera, A Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was denounced by Pravda in 1936 (reportedly because Stalin did not like it), Shostakovich revealed that he was rewriting it: "I did not like the old version; in vocal parts I abused high...
Poet E. E. Cummings, who died last week in New Hampshire at 67, spent a lifetime saying much the same thing. His tools were secular, but he practiced a religion nonetheless. It was the romantic individualist's religion of the heart, in which love is not an emotion but a deity. Its creed was faith in the miracle of man's individuality, his capacity for delight in beauty, in spring, in flowers, in girls. Its galaxy of devils, which grew as Cummings observed the modern world ("a hoax of clocks and calendars"), included dry intellects, science, mass thought...
...small adult, but is, rather, a specially organized small creature with its small-creature's temperature, balance and distribution of fat." Her recollection of the aging, epicene art critic Bernard Berenson, living out his dotage in Florence as if he were the celebrant of some exquisite secular liturgy, is a masterpiece of kindly malice...