Word: church
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford, Episcopalian, longtime editor of The Witness, longtime secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. With three bishops among its executives, the C.L.I.D. is respectable enough, but its critics have found it more complacent toward Communism than toward Fascism. After the Russo-German pact, The Living Church (Episcopal weekly) called upon Secretary Spofford to declare himself anew. He did so in a letter which the magazine published, and answered editorially, last week. Excerpts...
...comparison is useless as a way of determining the musical value of either type of composition, for in the orchestral-choral concert work, the details of fitting the individual words and phrases to the musical lines is secondary to the general movement of the whole composition. In the small church piece, on the other hand, the subtle enhancement of the phonetic and expressive qualities of each word and phrase by the musical line is the primary element of the style...
...text. This attitude is no less religious, probably, in the Symphony of Psalms or the Beethoven Mass than in the music of the sixteenth century; it is merely different. If we allow that it is legitimate to take sacred texts like the mass and the psalms from the church service to the public concert, then we must adopt a broader, more general view of the significance of the text and the sort of setting which is appropriate...
...killed in battle, arose from their graves last night at Sanders Theatre and refused to be buried. Despite the commands of army, church and family, they refused to lie down again. In "Bury The Dead" Irwin Shaw combines a fierce hatred of war with a conviction that the common man has come to find a more important reason for living than giving his blood for a muddy strip of battlefield. Shaw is pointing almost towards a rebirth, a reincarnation of man on a higher and finer plane...
...learn, is most successful when started right after the operation. A patient swallows air through his mouth, pushes it right out again with his abdominal muscles, chops it into speech with his teeth, tongue and lips as he expels it. Easiest type of word to learn is one like "church," formed with teeth and lips. Hardest is a guttural sound in the back of the throat, like "gang." Belch-talk is easy to understand but so husky that patients are often asked if they have a cold...