Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow-educated daughter of a wealthy merchant. It was the great love of his life, and he celebrated it in his exuberant 1918 Double Portrait with a Wineglass, in which a violet-stockinged Bella holds the artist up in the air, lifting him joyously above the streets, while an angel representing their daughter Ida hovers overhead...
...passages from the Protestant edition, includes a twelve-page appendix of notes explaining difficult lines. Most of the changes were made to preserve familiar phrases that have been hallowed by Catholic tradition or to emphasize a point of doctrine. In Luke 1:28, where the Protestant RSV has the Angel Gabriel addressing Mary as "Hail, O favored one," the Catholic version says "Hail, full of grace"-the traditional beginning of the "Hail Mary" prayer. In 17 passages, the Catholic RSV refers to the "brethren" of Jesus rather than to his "brothers...
...Mother the Car, Ann Sothern has died but returns as the disembodied voice of a car Jerry Van Dyke buys. The Smothers Brothers (CBS), who used to be a funny-folk duo, will impersonate a junior executive and his deceased brother who returns as an angel, I Dream of Jeannie (NBC) tells the imaginative story of an aspirant astronaut and Jeannie, a genie (it's a big year for clever names). As played by Barbara Eden, Jeannie is apparently not dead, but she keeps returning just the same...
...subject: the cult of courtly love and the service of the lady fair. In Dante's life the lady fair was Beatrice. A 14th century biographer reports, not altogether reliably, that she was a daughter of Folco Portinari, a Florentine nobleman, and that she looked like "a little angel." Dante, the account continues, met Beatrice when he was nine and she was eight, and he swore to love her forever. On the evidence of his poetry, he adored her from a distance. But the affair was nevertheless passionate and profound. When Beatrice died at 24, Dante was shaken...
Into this "vehicle of total esthetic possibility" Dante impounds the complete experience of medieval man-an experience bestial in its earthiness and supernal in its spirituality. Dante sees man reverently and sees him whole: as an ape and an angel, as a worm...