Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Article 6 of the Charter of Franco Spain; "no other external ceremonies or manifestations than those of the Catholic religion shall be permitted," but "no one shall be molested for his religious beliefs or in the private practice of his worship." In practice, Protestants may not hold government jobs, teach school, become officers in the armed forces. In business offices and factories they are rarely promoted (if they are not actually demoted when their beliefs become known...
...great monastery of El Escorial near Madrid, in the mid-1700s, a young Spanish priest named Antonio Soler used to teach music to His Most Serene Highness the Infante of Spain, Don Gabriel de Borbón. For the Infante's further diversion, Father Soler specially composed six sprightly duo-organ concertos. At their first U.S. performance last week, by Organist E. Power Biggs and Composer-Harpsichordist Daniel Pinkham, the concertos proved just as happily diverting to a modern audience as they must have been in Don Gabriel...
...addition to Griffin, three other visiting professors will teach history courses next year. Henry T. Wade-Gery, professor at Oxford University, will offer a Fall half-courses on the Greek renaissance and archaic Greece...
Defenders of the draft and of Universal Military Training argue that college youth have an unrealistic conception of manpower needs. The college student thinks that the army, like society, is capable of placing him in a highly specialized role (run a computer, teach a course in electronics, etc.) and if it cannot, it should allow him to serve the country in civilian life...
What a Man May Feel. What lessons do the great creators teach? The imitation of greatness and the intimation of immortality, answers Eliot, echoing thinkers from Goethe to Carlyle and Nietzsche. "Was not Homer a greater hero than Hector?" he asks. "He was a hero born not to slaughter other heroes but to create them, and to give them immortality. His created heroes show the astonishing size of what a man may feel and do. Thus they create new heroes in life...