Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Notre Dame's president. Then he talked the president, the Rev. John W. Cavanaugh (no relation), into giving him a job as his secretary so he could earn his way through college. Last week at 47, "young John"-now the Rev. John himself-became Notre Dame's 14th president...
Last week Aubusson came to Paris in an exhibition of French tapestries which made both critics and public happy. Said Figaro: "One moves from delight to delight." The biggest and best delight in the show was also the oldest: a 14th Century illustration of the Apocalypse-measuring 35 by 250 feet-from the Angers cathedral. The newest and most surprising were from Jean Lurçat's Aubusson atelier. Despite their secular emphasis on roosters, nudes and flaming suns, they, too, looked somehow medieval (see cuts...
...their first meeting since 1940, the University's Board of Overseers will convene May 13th and 14th. A report on the inauguration of the new General Education Plan and a visit of veterans Housing Units will comprise the major business...
P.R.B. stood for the "PreRaphaelite Brotherhood." The original Brothers were three Englishmen out of joint with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (20), John Everett Millais (19). They hoped to recapture the spiritual vigor and simplicity of 14th-and 15th-Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master...
Thanks. In Chicago, while Mason James Anderson hurtled groundward from a 14th-floor scaffold, Coworker Philip Walsh twirled a rope, lassoed him in midair, deposited him on the sidewalk practically unhurt...