Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course, the first time that Joey Alfidi of Yonkers, N.Y. had conducted a symphony orchestra (he made his first major solo flight at seven with the Symphony of the Air), nor the first time he has played one of his numerous compositions. In Brussels, where he was introduced by his father as the "new little Mozart." he attracted a capacity crowd. As usual, he conducted incisively and with note-perfect memory of the scores. His own concerto strongly, if somewhat naively, reflected the influence of Beethoven, was studded with technical tricks that suggested a surprisingly wide knowledge of piano literature...
...offers a major choice to man, says Murray. The choice is between the permanent "Christian revolution with all its hopes of freedom and justice" and the "reactionary counterrevolution" represented by rationalism. Man can either go on to a "new age of order," guided by the moral law, or he can go back to what Theologian Romano Guardini describes as the "interior disloyalty of modern times" -disloyalty not to a state, an ideal or even a faith, but a betrayal of the "structure of reality itself." In that event, the future will belong to a new incarnation of that "senseless, faithless...
...fellow Catholics that they must become more intellectually aware of their ' coexistence'' in a pluralist, heavily Protestant society. But not even remotely is he trying to trim Catholicism to any other faith, or to the absence of faith. In his view, Catholics can make a major contribution-perhaps the decisive contribution-to an American society in spiritual crisis. His terms may startle some non-Catholics. "The question is not," says Murray, "whether Catholicism is safe for democracy, but whether democracy is safe for Catholicism...
...lifework as professor of theology at Woodstock and editor (since 1941) of the learned quarterly Theological Studies. Thin, towering Father Murray is still the debater (and more subtly the actor) of his high school days. Lecturing to his classes of fledgling Jesuits at granite-grey Woodstock-where his major specialty is the Trinity-Theologian Murray makes effective use of his long, well-manicured hands and his well-pitched baritone, which is as clear as his well-organized thought...
...proved necessary. It was set up to guard against wildly inflationary printing-press money, a danger that the Government's prudent money managers have shown themselves capable of preventing without the need for the gold-backing Preventing law. The U.S. is the need world's only major nation with gold-backing requirements, which have actually been reduced over Switzerland and Belgium. The practical impact of the law is lost because the present U.S money supply is backed by 38% in gold instead of 25%. The Federal Reserve Board can suspend the backing indefinately in a real emergency, thereby...