Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climax of Paul's visit was yet to come. That night he celebrated Mass before more than 90,000 people in Yankee Stadium-an occasion that turned the old arena, one Catholic noted, into "the home of Mantle, Maris and Montini." Instead of a solemn pontifical Mass, Paul chose to recite a simple Low Mass, to which the congregation responded rousingly in English. In keeping with the liturgical reforms of the Vatican Council, lessons were read by laymen, and twelve children-the only ones to receive Communion from the Pope that day-brought the bread and wine...
Musical drama lies deep in the history of virtually every society. It is partly religious. Says Father R. L. Bruckberger, the unorthodox and literary French priest: "A solemn Mass in Latin-that for me is true opera." Western opera was born during the Renaissance, probably as an attempt to recreate Greek drama with its choruses and chanted poetry. From the first, the creators of opera felt the urge to avoid artifice. Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-87) said that it was silly not to have "realistic" characters in opera-so he created Orfeo and Euridice, with their set, face-front arias...
Emerson called him "the greatest writer who ever lived." Claudel considered him a "great solemn ass." Jung pronounced him "a prophet." Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a "wayward dabbler in philosophy." Valery said he was "one of the luckiest throws that fate has ever allowed the human race to make...
...staked much-and sometimes too much-on t he hallowed concept of the separation of church and state, the federal funding of projects and institutions with church ties has become commonplace. Whatever happened to the impregnable "wall of separation between Church and State" that Thomas Jefferson "contemplated with solemn reverence"? The answer is that the wall is still there, invulnerable as ever, but that reasonable men have found gates in it that can be opened, yet guarded. Says Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, himself a Baptist teacher: "Separation of church and state meant one thing when government and religion were...
...From his solemn mien and the badge pinned defiantly on his lapel, anyone who spotted Orville Freeman on the street in recent weeks might have concluded that he was rehearsing for a cigarette commercial. And in fact, though his badge, I WILL NOT BOW DOWN TO THE BREAD TRUST, was hardly aimed at the consumer, the Secretary of Agriculture proved as unswitchable as they come...