Word: sei
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
...PILLOW-BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON- Translated by Arthur Waley-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). The Tale of Genji, recently done into English, revealed a highly sophisticated civilization in loth Century Japan. Lady Murasaki's novel is fiction glossed with decadent romance, but her accuracy of atmosphere and circumstance is corroborated by this loth Century Japanese diary. Sei Shonagon was in the service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance...
...translate "Gott strafe England," as "God Damn England." A far more accurate translation would have been: "God punish England," the meaning back of the word "strafe" being that punishment is merited. Had your version been intended the German would have been one of two expressions, "Gott verdammt sei England," or, "Gott verdamme England." There is quite a difference between invoking punishment and invoking damnation...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, missionary, onetime president of St. Paul's University, Tokyo, and first Japanese Bishop of the Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kwai (Holy Catholic Church of Japan), of heart disease; in Tokyo. Consecrated Bishop in Dec. 1923, his first act was to set about the restoration of his diocese, laid waste by earthquake three months before...
...program follows: Organ: Choral Preludes Bach a. Christus der uns selig macht b. Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam Choir: Antiphonal, Haec dies Gallus Adoramus Te, Christe Lassus Hodie Christus natus est Palestrina Organ: Choral Preludes Bach a. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland b. Fuga: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr' Choir: O vos omnes Vittoria Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Organ: Larghetto R. Thompson Choir: Antiphonal, Pueri Hebraeorum R. Thompson Organ: Introduction and Allegro from Second Organ Concerto Handel