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With Lily Pons singing less often (she sang the 100th Lucia of her career last month), and with Patrice Munsel dividing her time between the Met and her child, young Roberta is carrying a veteran's load of soubrette and coloratura roles...
Jubilee Year. The purpose of this week's Roman holiday was the formal inauguration of the Marian Year, proclaimed by the Pope to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the promulgation .of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception (which holds that the Mother of Jesus Christ was preserved from original sin). For the occasion, the Pope drove through downtown Rome for the first time since the war. In the Piazza di Spagna, at the foot of the magnificent Spanish Steps, he stopped to place a bouquet of flowers at the column commemorating the Immaculate Conception. Then he drove...
...encyclical letter titled Fulgens Corona (The Radiant Crown), Pope Pius XII proclaimed the year 1954 (from December 1953 to December 1954) a Marian Year, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The Marian Year will be marked by special ceremonies, and Roman Catholics everywhere were urged to concentrate their prayers on three main subjects: world peace, church unity, and "the church of silence"-Catholics who live behind the Iron Curtain under fear and persecution for their faith...
...shall shortly be celebrating the 100th anniversary of that party that so came to birth, find ourselves, too. living in a time dark with the shadow of dreaded war. It is a time, too, which has seen the institution of slavery-elevated now to the awful dignity of a political philosophy and inspired with the terrible ambition of world conquest-divide not a nation but the world against itself. And at this precise time again there has come the summons of the American people calling upon the Republican Party to redeem the hopes of the past and to save...
...mark the 100th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's birth, the city of Verona mounted a production of Aïda in its local amphitheater that was hard to forget: the 138-ft.-wide stage was filled with more than 1,000 singers and actors, not to mention ten horses and a cow. That was 40 years ago. More recently, Veronese have noted with pique that Rome's summer opera, in the huge old ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, have been serving up Aïda on a 167-ft. stage replete with camels, ancient obelisks...