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...time when Roman Catholics are questioning tenets of their religion in an atmosphere of rare intellectual excitement, Pope Paul VI last week proclaimed an inflexible affirmation of traditional Catholic doctrine. In a new church creed,* the Pontiff etched a portrait of Christianity little changed from medieval days...
...revolutionary. As the richly robed churchmen filed into Uppsala's twin-spired Gothic cathedral, trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read by Tanzanian Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Josiah Kibira, resplendent in a stole whose tribal designs stood in dramatic contrast with its white silk background. The program for the 16-day conference included everything from Bible study...
...playwright, who had written one historical tetralogy (the three Henry VI plays and Richard III), was here embarking on another, which would continue with 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V. Although it lacks the artistic unity of, say, Wagner's Ring tetralogy, it does among other things constitute a corporate course in the true art of monarchical government. In Richard II Shakespeare shows us a properly titled divine-right king who lacks the qualities of leadership. In the pair of Henry IV plays we see a gifted leader plagued by his lack of legitimate title. Finally, in Henry...
Pope Paul VI last week announced that some bones unearthed during excavations under St. Peter's Basilica were, in his judgment, those of Peter the Apostle, the Galilean fisherman whom Roman Catholics consider the founder of the Church of Rome. "The relics of St. Peter," declared Paul, "have been identified in a manner which we believe convincing." He based his conclusion on the fact that "very patient and accurate investigations were made with the result which we believe positive, encouraged by the judgment of worthy and competent persons...
...this is expressed in a greater interest in the material, the linguistic texture, than in the thought content." Literary Critic Maurice Nadeau finds, furthermore, that many young novelists are simply "popularizing or dramatizing the linguistic and sociological findings" of such popular scholars as University of Paris Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss...