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...more, more! The Resurrection!'' But Christ, echoing Kazantzakis' own belief, stonily replies: 'Crucifixion. Resurrection, and Paradise are identical.'' But Francis' charm is as richly portrayed as his torments. He preaches by ringing a bell, dancing in the streets, clapping and singing. His sermon to the swallows, his conversion of his friends are as beautifully rendered as they are in The Little Flowers of St. Francis. ''God forgive me," Francis tells his Sisters, "I feel sorry even for Satan. There is no creature more unfortunate, more wretched than he, because...
Walt Kelly is usually preaching a sermon, and that--aside from his wonderful drawings--is a secret of his charm. The sermon is a kind of good-tempered antinomian tract, expressing a universal and perfectly justified skepticism about mostly everything. And there is entirely too much tolerance for the skepticism to ever become bitter. The most biting sketch in The Black Book is a caricature of a red-neck super-patriot Wildcat--"It's people like me what come from old stock that knows a Real American from a Phony--that's where the government breaks down--they...
Technique & Feeling. Stravinsky's new cantata. A Sermon, A Narrative and A Prayer, was a far more impressive achieve ment. Only 15 minutes long, it was scored for alto, tenor, speaker, chorus and full orchestra. Yet it had so lean a texture that virtually every detail was visible - as if a chamber group were playing. The piece was remarkable not only for its intensity and melodic freedom but for the intricacy and beauty of the vocal writing, particularly in the moving duet of alto and tenor in the Prayer, and in the Narrative about the stoning of St. Stephen...
...sermon, the minister discussed the possible effects of the editorial series: "If the legacy of the week's effort among groups here and there is a kind of lingering suspicion about the integrity of parts of our community--a suspicion that is in the air but not based on the most careful judgment, or a weighing of the issues--then it is an unhappy day indeed...
Concluding his sermon, Gibson said, "Those who wield so powerful an instrument for the destruction of respect and confidence should have their authority challenged. How has the staff of the CRIMSON earned the right to cast this doubt among...