Word: benedictus
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...FOURTH OF JUNE (208 pp.)-David Benedictus-Dutton...
Partisan Aim. The latest old Etonian to call public attention to the soup stains on the old school tie is 24-year-old David Benedictus. Brought out in England last June to coincide with the date of the school's fanciest annual party (from which it takes its title), the book caused a small but predictable stir. Liberal reviewers used it to launch an impassioned appeal for school reform. Conservative critics, many of them older Etonians than the author, shrilly denounced him for sensationalism. They were offended by an incident in which a student sells his handsome younger brother...
...ranged over the multitude of sons and brothers and suddenly as my glance rested upon your group, on each of you personally, I drew a special comfort from your presence. I will not say more about that at the moment but will content myself with recording the fact: Benedictus Deus per singulos dies [Blessed be God each day as it comes]. Yet, if you could read my heart, you would perhaps understand much more than words...
This sense of detail is the cornerstone of a distinctive philosophic method to which Wolfson brings, in the words of a colleague, "the instinct of a great detective." In every philosopher, Wolfson contends, there are two important men. In Spinoza, for example, there is Benedictus and Baruch. Benedictus is Spinoza the writer, the explicit man. Baruch, on the other hand, is the implicit Spinoza, the man on whom Benedictus ultimately depends, and through whom he may be understood...
...voice chorus which prevented the subtly shifting balance of up to eight voice parts from being clearly perceived, especially in the intricate In Ecclesiis and Jubilate Dco. Nevertheless, these works achieved a tremendous excitement, due in no small part to the assistance of an excellent brass choir. The Gabrieli Benedictus and O Jesu Mi Duleissime, on the other hand, were realized with a greater transparency of texture, perhaps because the vocal masses were more evenly balanced against each other in these works. Also, in the case of the Benedictus, the choirs were distributed in three parts of Sanders Theatre while...