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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices, he would doll up the music with ornaments and, if another soprano complained, he would steal a few arias from the first soprano and slip them to the second. To further befuddle historians, Handel was continually juggling arias to fit whatever boy soprano, male alto or countertenor happened along. As a result, a wide range of different but thoroughly authentic "original versions" of the oratorio came into being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Misunderstood Messiah | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Pope John XXIII opens the Second Vatican Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Top of the Decade: Religion | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Rudolph Bultmann, the dominant voice in postwar German theology. Pannenberg dramatically asserted God's past action in history by reaffirming that Christ actually rose from the dead, and established his future activity by making the eschaton ("last things") once again real and important: Judgment and Christ's Second Coming were the proper endpoint of history. But it remained for Jürgen Moltmann, a young Reformed theologian in Germany, to articulate the future in a thoroughgoing, credible theology mindful of the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Changing Theologies for a Changing World | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...Christ. There is only one real problem in Christian theology: the problem of the future." As Moltmann sees it, the churches have neglected that central point of Christianity almost completely, looking wistfully back, instead, toward a vanished primordial paradise. "The Church lives on memories," Moltmann writes in a second book, Religion, Revolution, and the Future, "the world on hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Changing Theologies for a Changing World | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...other football fans anxiously await the battles between the N.F.L. and A.F.L. divisional champions, Washington fans can relax and contemplate their bright future. The Redskins, who had not enjoyed a winning season since 1955, had by week's end fashioned a 7-4-2 record to clinch a second-place finish behind Dallas in the N.F.L.'s Capitol Division. Good as that was, Lombardi was not satisfied: "Let's not get all worked up about this team. We still have a long way to go, and a lot of areas need shoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whipping Up the Redskins | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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