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...feeling is not the word: it is passion: the passion for artistic perfection . . . The true critic, I repeat, is the man who becomes your personal enemy on the sole provocation of a bad performance." And he decided that the quick, deadline-ducking judgments delivered by newspaper critics could be valid: "The only compositions which will bear thinking of for more than half an hour are those which require an intimate acquaintance for at least ten years for their critical mastery." Critic Shaw followed a simple but infinitely cunning line: he discussed music not as an art but as a grave...
...after the union be performed by Episcopal bishops, but agreed that no reordination would be required of those who had already been ordained in non-Episcopal churches. Said the Canterbury-York report on recommending intercommunion: "We consider that there are no longer any grounds for hesitancy in accepting as valid in intention the consecrations and ordinations of the Church of South India...
...Such a church," said the Rev. Hugh Ross Williamson, an Annunciationist leader and playwright, "cannot be called a Christian church in any hitherto definable sense of the term . . . After today, it will be impossible to be certain that any ordination in the Church of England is valid. This is not just another crisis. It is a unique happening which is bound to have historical consequences...
...moody, modey tune that began with the sound of footsteps in the rain and ended on the indeterminate, to-be-continued note. Its words revealed a valid adolescent's dream: a chance encounter, a blooming love affair, a tragic ending when the man borrowed her money to buy her a ring and then "skipped out of town," never to be seen again...
...surliest advance notices ever published in the Hollywood press, an erstwhile TV star, Tennessee's mild-mannered Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, quietly moved into the movie capital last week. Sitting as a one-man Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, Prober Kefauver was looking for answers to a valid question: Do sex and violence in Hollywood's product give U.S. kids bad ideas? He also wanted to know more about dirty movies, commonly shot in hotel rooms on a G-string budget. The linking of the two probes was more than Hollywood's outraged trade press could bear...