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...increasingly important arm of the Catholic Church in Spain is Opus Dei, a semisecret lay order whose members vow obedience, poverty and chastity, and have reached every level of official and intellectual life in Spain. The organization has no stated political goals, except to maintain the church's influence in any government that rules. Opus Dei is no particular ally of the regime, but three members are in Franco's Cabinet, including Commerce Minister Ullastres. They tend to be highly conservative in politics, strongly liberal in economics...
Died. Burton Egbert Stevenson, 89, sprightly anthologist and founder of the American Library in Paris, a onetime printer's devil who left nothing to chance in his meticulously compiled Home Books of quotations, verse, proverbs and maxims -a lifelong opus of more than 30,000 pages-marked by artful delving into literary sources from Greek preachments ("Abstain from beans"-Pythagoras) to English epigrams ("Tell it to the Marines"-Charles II to Mr. Samuel Pepys); after a long illness; in Chillicothe, Ohio...
Then Block took charge at the piano, and with Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto prompted Serkin and Bernstein, Mannes and Graffman and Szell and Firkusny to exchange pleased glances. "Let's hear Beethoven's Opus 27 in E-flat," asked Leopold Mannes from the balcony. Block then eased his way into the Beethoven sonata fantasy with a keen intelligence that paid heed not only to detail but also to essential unity. Displaying versatility as well as virtuosity, Block played a cadenza from a Tchaikovsky concerto and a Liszt sonata. Chattering excitedly, the judges reached a verdict...
...declared: "Nothing is said of the real social situation that caused the strikes." Admitted one of the signers: "This won't have any effect. But it gives us a little exercise in civic duties." At the University of Madrid, student riots about the mounting influence in education of Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic lay order, turned into sympathy demonstrations for the strikers...
...expressionism Webern adopted from Schoenberg. They realize his credo, "Once stated, the theme expresses all it has to say; it must be followed by something fresh." At the same time, they embrace the musical principles of the Brahms from which Webern had just emerged (the Six Pieces are only Opus 6). That is, they develop a single, chromatic figure, through varying rhythms and intervals. Every successive point is fresh, but presents only the logical implications of what has preceded...