Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Works to be shown are primarily taken from two eras of art: the fifth century of Greece and the seventeenth century of Europe. However, there will be pieces ranging from the second century B.C. to he twentieth century...
...There is an impression abroad that religion first and last is a comforting and comfortable affair. Twentieth century Christianity has lost the stringent note. For most of us there is no cross in it, no abstinence, no subjugation of the flesh in the interests of the spirit. People are not made to feel when they look at the church and its program that Christianity is a creed for heroes or that to embrace it means 'living dangerously' . . . The man on the street has little reason to think, that Christians are a company of people committed to the turning...
...School for Scandal. Sheridan's post-restoration comedy in twentieth-century dress. Very enjoyable. At the Brattle...
...opening shot of a bullet-pocked adobe wall characterizes this "biography" of Emiliano Zapata, Mexico's peasant revolutionary. Twentieth Century Fox concentrated on the bloodshed and violence of Zapata's rebellion, and although Viva Zapata has captured the force of this brutality, it stops right there...
...Woodworth added another to his long list of triumphs with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. The singing was by turns intimate, exuberant, and uplifting as the chorus presented a richly varied sample of Vaughan Williams' output--generally acknowledged to be the outstanding choral literature of the Twentieth Century. Only a first rate ensemble can tackle the contrapuntal windings of a work like "Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge" and project each voice distinctly while preserving purity of tone. Mr. Woodworth's group did exactly that, and more--it demonstrated throughout the long, arduous program a vibrant spirit...