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Died. Monsignor Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, 73, founder and president general of Opus Dei, the spiritually elitist Catholic lay organization that has 60,000 members in 73 countries; of a heart attack; in Rome. Founded in 1928, Opus Dei eventually became so influential in Spain that some critics accused it of wielding inordinate political and economic power...
...major opus is Common Sense II, an attack on corporate tyranny that draws on Thomas Paine's Common Sense for its rhetoric if not its analysis. Like much of what the PBC has done so far, Common Sense II spins out an elaborate analogy between the threat to American freedom and political expression today and the plight of the American colonies under King George...
...work here. He has a sort of "mystical" confidence that he'll finish the thesis on time, but he is often frustrated these days that so many friends ask how it's coming. He does not like playing the role of the bleary-eyed thesis writer talking about his opus...
...Tell me again about the rabbits, George." The plea is from John Steinbeck's naturalistic opus Of Mice and Men. The pleader is Lennie, a ruined hulk who grasps ideas with his hands instead of his brain. Looming about the California farm land, Lennie is barely held in tow by his keeper George. Together, the two migratory workers enjoy a classic symbiosis, the blending of brute strength and animal cunning...
THERE IS NO better occasion than a birthday to pay homage to a great composer, and in honor of Beethoven's 204th, the Bach Society Orchestra played an all-Beethoven concert last Saturday evening. Chosen from Beethoven's seven concertos and nine symphonies, the Violin Concerto in D. Opus 61 (1806), offered a change of solo instrument after performances of piano concertos in the past two concerts, and the Symphony Number Eight in F, Opus 93 (1812), was simply the only one that could be managed by the small 43-man orchestra...