Word: surveyers
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...volume series on the development of Christian doctrine, The Christian Tradition. It recently issued Lutheran Pelikan's second volume, The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (329 pages; $16.50), a careful distillation of Eastern Orthodoxy's contribution to Christian thought. Princeton University Press will soon bring out a massive survey called Religious Movements in Contemporary America (900 pages; $25), which ranges from Scientology to Krishna Consciousness. An earlier entry from Yale University Press, Historian Sydney E. Ahlstrom's huge but very readable A Religious History of the American People (1,158 pages; $19.50), has already become a standard...
WHEN BERNSTEIN'S survey of Western music arrives at the 20th century, his emphasis on innateness and universality suddenly takes on new significance. The 19th century ended "with a life-and-death crisis lurking around the corner." Mahler's Ninth Symphony, a great song of death, is the last, barely tonal expression of a bloated Romanticism dying of its own weight. The new century will have to face the disintegration of tonality, a process which began nearly a hundred years earlier with the Beethoven of the Gross Fuge and the last piano sonatas...
This fall Homans commissioned a survey of potential Suffolk County jurors on their views of abortion as a guide he would have during jury selection...
Chase said that because of the Institute's existing facilities and programs HEW wants the institute to act as a clearinghouse for health care programs. One of the programs will survey people in the health care field around the country to determine what they feel are the problems facing the industry...
...page C.D.F. report decried "the rampant use of suspensions and other disciplinary devices to throw children out of school." The survey showed that more than 1 million children were suspended from school last year-blacks at a rate twice as high as whites. In Macon, Ga., a 16-year-old black student was expelled for three months because he could not pay $5 to replace the ruler he had accidentally broken in shop...