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...composition that brought cheers from Carnegie Hall's audience was Bruckner's Te Deum. Like all of his major works it is large, vigorous, austerely religious-a vast tonal shrine. Its melodies are plain-spoken rather than pretty; it has little sensuous appeal. But when Conductor Bruno Walter, the New York Philharmonic and the 176-voice Westminster Choir rose to its climaxes, admirers felt they were hearing music equaled in cumulative power only by the most massive scores in symphonic music...
When other problems pall, General Wilson can consider that of the Roman Catholic Church. Some of his troops in Italy already have run into painful decisions on when a shrine ceases to be a shrine and becomes an enemy artillery observation post (see p. 56). When the Allies approach Rome the eyes of the Christian world inevitably will be upon them, asking the mute question whether the city and its priceless antiquities must be left in rubble...
...development now includes the original farmhouse, 30 cows (Father Urbain owns 15), a shrine on every farm. Later there will be a communal barn for cows which will graze on a communal pasture. But Father Urbain does not consider that collectivism: "It's the very opposite of that. It will make the people individualists, keep them from having to sit in the city and push buttons...
...central altar goes back to early Christian times, was common up to the 9th Century. Today most churches do not have them. Some exceptions: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City; Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak, Mich...
...mountain hut he confronted Fenton triumphantly, explained that it was all an anti-Nazi plot. Escaping Axis prisoners were given the mittens be cause the curious pattern was a map. The food at the shrine was for Bastineau. The cure's cryptic sermons kept the villagers informed of anti-Nazi activities. De Vaudois tied Fenton's arms with a rope, began to lead her to Gestapo headquarters. Suddenly a "wondrous and loud and wild" whoopee sounded above their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft...