Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earnest. And if the book is taken seriously, it must be judged as fuzzy-minded, lacking in perspective, low in definition and data, redundant, and contemptuous of logical sequence-which is to say that McLuhan has perfectly illustrated the cool qualities he most values in communications. McLuhan's solemn pseudo science at work: "What do we know about the social or psychic energies that develop by electric fusion or implosion when literate individuals are suddenly gripped by an electromagnetic field, such as occurs in the new Common Market pressure in Europe?" Or: "Had TV occurred on a large scale...
...this spring, spent most of it lying around the house, contemplating ways to get rich quicker. All that happened was that his golf game went to pot. But last week Tony finally staggered home $20,000 to the good in New York's Thunderbird Classic and made a solemn resolution. From now on, when Lema hears that Arnie Palmer or Jack Nicklaus is taking a week off to rest up for some big tournament like this week's U.S. Open, he will grit his teeth and swing away. Exercise, not rest, is Champagne Tony's new prescription...
...revisions will put nearly half the Mass and all the sacraments, except holy orders, into English. In both low and solemn Masses, Latin will be retained for the beginning prayers at the foot of the altar and for the canon, the central prayer of the celebration. But the Epistle and Gospel and all the chants of the Mass - the introit, gradual, offertory and communion verses -will be in English, and so will a number of prayers that will be recited by priest and congregation together: the Kyrie eleison (Lord, have mercy on us), the Gloria, the Creed, the Sanctus...
There are passable poems here, but only a few. The great body of these verses are jounce-rhymed, solemn and obvious. The contrast with the majesty and freedom of the author's prose could not be greater. Where Melville could interrupt the action of Moby-Dick to supply the reader with treatises on the history and anatomy of whales and whaling, and not risk impatience, he rarely gets through a twelve-line poem without spreading a tedium so deadly that its fumes kill flying insects...
...sure a solemn chorus, robbed in purple, comments on the action in song, but their accompaniment is a jarring, discordant arrangement of oboes, tympani, drums, and piano (written by Guzzetti himself). An angular, jagged set complements the music and helps undercut the stolid dignity of the purely tragic form...