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...whole tenor of the article suggests a very hasty and inadequate command of both musical history and literature. For example, the Palestrina choral style which is known as that of the post-Trent period is entirely free from "incredible complexity". Dr. Pratt's statement that Gershwin shows possibilities of approaching such masters as Brahms and Mozart in choral effects and counterpoint is astonishing. Aside from the fact that the best choral works of Mozart and Brahms are of a serious nature, a careful analysis of the works reveals no similarity in either their construction or the final effects produced...
...London reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...
Died. Jesse Boot, Baron Trent of Nottingham, 81, founder of the $25,000,000 drug store chain, Boot's Cash Chemists, which with 770 shops in England controls Boot's Pure Drug Co. and four subsidiary companies; of paralysis; in St. Helier, island of Jersey...
...textbook would provide many such instances but I would like to mention that Daniel Webster apologized to Spain for the defacing of a portrait of Queen Isabella in New Orleans and that Seward, upon the advice of Lincoln and Sumner, made a similar gracious gesture to England in the "Trent Affair." Possibly these two secretaries of state could claim a 5? rating in our history...
When one harks back to the Council of Trent in which the church was rejuvenated on the platform of "war against heresy", the progressive attitude of the present Pope sems phenomenal, but the whole world has become tolerant and the Catholic church has had to follow. It never was a leader in this movement, nor has it yet sanctioned the liberal individualism of today. It remains a hierarchy based on dogma, but because of the broad-mindedness of its recent pontiffs has seemed to be in step with the times...