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...join the queue outside the Kremlin and shuffle your way in through the red marble portals of Lenin's tomb, you automatically take your hat off. . . . You have been visiting a shrine. . . . Communism is now a fully fledged religion which claims to be of universal application. . . . It has a tremendous literature of commentary and exegesis, and all the usual saints and martyrs and heresies. . . . It is rigidly orthodox and highly fanatical. . . . And this . . . religion has really got a grip on the world...
...Emperor Meiji's classic Shinto ghost would toss about in dismay inside the quiet Meiji Shrine, if it knew what was happening at the Diet building a few miles away. Though some might say that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist...
Harold Lloyd, callow comic of the silents (and star of Preston Sturges' forthcoming The Sin of Harold Diddlebock), was elected Imperial Chief Rabban of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine...
...Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson, who had a, go at bottling up the Spanish Fleet in Santiago Harbor, went a standard honor, nearly half a century after his triumph and ten years after his death: the Hobson manse in Greensboro, Ala. was dedicated as a public shrine...
Printemps'), . . . The divagations from Stravinsky . . . are not of creative significance." Said the entranced World-Telegram: "He [Messiaen] seems to stand before a shrine, chanting the vision he beholds ... a sort of fluttering commotion spread over the music." Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, who has labored to introduce Messiaen's music to the U.S., was slightly flummoxed. Wrote he: ". . . powerful and original music . . . it is our obligation as listeners ... to get inside [it], since [it does] not easily penetrate our customary concert psychology...