Word: angelicizing
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What Wagner did require was an "elemental, erotic quality," and he found it in Mezzo Soprano Bumbry's voice, a naturally glorious, bronzelike instrument that ranged through the house with impressive power. But because Wieland's concept of the staging allowed Venus about as much movement as a...
Who Is Safe? It did not take the 1960 election to establish-though it well served to recall-what a unique encounter i diverse traditions is contained in the words "American Catholic." In the historical reality behind those words St Ignatius Loyola, founder of John Courtney Murray's order...
Professors Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and John K. Galbraith should be congratulated for their remarks concerning the awarding of honorary degrees at Harvard University. It is indeed strange that only four avowed Democrats have received degrees as opposed to twenty-three Republicans. Yet, the word "discriminatory" does not really apply...
At the end of the novel Dostoevsky refers to Raskolnikov's "gradual regeneration," all, of course, through great suffering. The movie ends with a church hymn being sung in the background as Rene is led away in the police van. Lili is looking on, with tears in her eyes and...
The caricatures drawn on stage by the HDC are violent, rakish monstrosities whose antics are usually funny, especially when the actors slow down and give Brecht's witty asides a chance. Perhaps, as the run progresses, some will give their lines more of the broad irony that Brecht seems to...