Word: borromeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rock-Bottom Honesty. Society, to be sure, was not Eakins' forte. He admired people of accomplishment, preferred to portray doctors, professors, scientists. In 1900, he became acquainted with several Roman Catholic clergymen at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Philadelphia suburb of Overbrook, and eagerly seized the opportunity to portray four clerics as well as a prominent Catholic layman. For Eakins, it was a rare chance to examine various personalities within a close-knit group. For this reason, the pictures have long held a special fascination for those who knew of their existence. But in the cloistered halls...
...moment to make his presidential intentions known to a presumably breathless world. The mystery part was a bit thin (few observers doubt that De Gaulle will run for a second term), but the history was laid on thick. Nov. 4 is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), an Italian cardinal and church reformer possessed of a Gaullist profile, an imperious manner, and a bent for catechizing. Moreover, St. Charles, like his namesake, was once the target for an assassination attempt -by a disgruntled monk whose order he had attempted to control. The parallels were obvious; so were...