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...horror at the possible death of a culture, as fragile as the ozone layer, the culture of Dostoyevsky and Pasternak? Damn the totalitarian empire, but will this be the end of the only country in the world where millions of people recite poetry by heart, like a prayer, where they listen to poetry readings in stadiums, where a book of verse can still sell 250,000 copies...
...Yours) * -- referring to Mary, not Christ. Once he put on St. Peter's ring, John Paul made Mary's unifying power a centerpiece of his papal arsenal. He has visited countless Marian shrines during his globe trotting, and invokes the Madonna's aid in nearly every discourse and prayer that he delivers. He firmly believes that her personal intercession spared his life when he was shot at St. Peter's Square in Rome in 1981; the assassination attempt occurred on May 13, the exact anniversary of the first Fatima apparition...
Elie Wiesel quotes a Hasidic rabbi's prayer, "I have but one request; may I never use my reason against truth." Wiesel's grandfather believed "An objective Hasid is not a Hasid." The value of miracles hinges upon these distinctions. The subjective and objective flow into one another until the + distinction between the two is meaningless, just as the distinction between God and human vanishes. Reason has its mechanical uses in an ordinary world but is counterproductive in the higher realms that miracles inhabit. So says the believer's mystic line...
MARCUS ROBERTS: PRAYER FOR PEACE (RCA/Novus). This terrific young jazz pianist doesn't do things the easy way. He performs 14 seasonal songs, ranging from the shimmering Silver Bells to a Tatum-tinged Auld Lang Syne, with due reverence for both tradition and experimentation. Music appropriate for either a Christmas Eve service or a secular late-night eggnog...
SWISS FOLK ART: CELEBRATING AMERICA'S ROOTS, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City. Marking the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation, 180 objects -- including carnival masks, prayer books, cake molds and embroidered towels -- demonstrate the true vitality of Switzerland's folk traditions. Through...