Word: borgias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...
...Manhattan theatrical pool. This is, one supposes, what is termed a "tendency." Now tendencies have a forbidding sound about them. Somehow they seem sinister. One speaks of the husband of one's neighbor as having a tendency to drink too much. It was a tendency in the Borgia family to fortify their enemy's Chianti with toxic drops. Yet giving money to beggars is not described as a tendency. It is a form of personal advertising, and becomes a tendency only when the advertiser performs it to such an extent that his family have him removed...
Gioconda for Rose Raisa, Le Prophête for Charles Marshall, Werther for Mary Garden, will probably be added to Chicago operatic repertory next season. Also it is likely that Don Carlos will be mounted for Chaliapin, Gianni Schicchi for Galeffii; Pearl Fishers for Schipa, Lucrezia Borgia for Raisa, and Pilléas and Mélisande for Garden and Baklanoff...
...cardinal purple has been worn by many of the noblest men who ever lived and by some of the greatest rascals. Richelieu was the Cardinal-Duke, as was Cesare Borgia; de Rohan was the Cardinal-politician ;Reginald Pole, the Cardinal -man -without -a-country; Wolsey and Mazarin, the Cardinal-statesmen ; Newman, the Cardinal-poet ; and "in the person of James Gibbons the full flower of spiritual princeliness came to its blossom...
...interest ranks with the best of Sabatini's adventurous novels, but a biography which displays throughout a steadfast adherence to historical fact. Sabatini does not attempt to whitewash the terrific Cesare, but he does explode a number of usual errors concerning and flimsy accusations against him. Life in the Borgia home was not, as is commonly supposed, just one cup of poison after another. But, nevertheless, as Sabatini describes it, it seems thrilling enough to shake the nerves of a human...