Word: sancta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this weekend, Collegium will perform some of the finest of the mixed choral music ever composed. The formidable ensemble will sing the young Mozart's Missa Solemnis, Sancta Maria, Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie K. 323, Qualite Primum Regnum, and Venite Populi...
...Mary Lucille Banach-799 Concord Ave., Secretary to the Board of Directors, Sancta Maria Hospital...
Four years ago those entering Harvard could savor the lingering aftertaste of five years of revolution. (Well, attempted revolution.) Now, as distinguished professors freeze slowly into grotesque shapes in Widener studies, they need not worry about students storming their sancta. As students thaw out their textbooks before beginning an evening of problem sets, they no longer have to worry about being disturbed by the sounds of peers capturing the commanding heights of capitalism. As always, in such transitional periods, literature often reflects the fledgling zeitgeist. The other day I found the following ballad aerosolled on the columns of Widener...
...Harvard wandered rather aimlessly after Baker left, and by the fifties the Houses were centers for the production of a great many skits musical reviews and Christmas plays. Vestiges of these remain, but the scatological depths were really plumbed in those days before girls had invaded the all-male sancta...
...ritual is empty because the world still behaves as if it were pretty much the devil's province, that because man has failed on earth God has failed too is common enough. According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas. Bernstein, after all, is an artist and entertainer, not a theologian. But even his stagecraft, his taste and his music, despite many delights and flourishes, reflect a basic confusion...