Word: johannes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Netherlands and elsewhere, John Paul plainly seeks to shore up the church through doctrinal discipline. In Germany, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger recently used a long dormant concordat to deny a professorship to Johann Baptist Metz, a leading exponent of Liberation Theology. The Vatican doctrinal office has also just issued a second attack on a liberal study of sexual morality commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America...
This year there was no question. Though future stars such as Yannick Noah, Johann Kriek and Pat DuPre all had fine tournaments, and Vitas Gerulaitis did, after all, make the finals, the 1979 U. S. Open belonged, like it or not, to John McEnroe...
...mystery of things are conducted backward: "Instead of using what we can guess at about the nature of thought to explain the nature of music, start over again. Begin with music and see what this can tell us about the sensation of thinking." He recommends an experiment, enlisting Johann Sebastian Bach to support his hypothesis: "Put on The St. Matthew Passion and turn the volume up all the way. That is the sound of the whole central nervous system of human beings, all at once...
...common goal' for all of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development-almost instantly after emerging on the earth by any evolutionary standard-the music of Johann Sebastian Bach cannot...
...Fledermaus. Johann Strauss distilled the spirit of Imperial Vienna into an operetta with the intoxicating effect of champagne. Unfortunately, Lowell House Opera's production takes a cast of basically fine voices and runs them out of Vienna, and into a wilderness of farce and tastelessness...