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McCormick says he plans to use this money to pursue a wide range of projects on a variety of subjects ranging from saints’ lives to DNA to Carolingian coins to rats. At the root of all of these projects is a desire to create historical knowledge using the breakthroughs of natural science and the computer revolution, he says...
...origins of plainchant are obscure. The music takes its name from Pope Gregory I (A.D. 590-604), but probably developed in the Carolingian empire -- part of which is now Germany -- during the 8th and 9th centuries. There may be as many as 11,000 Gregorian melodies, ranging from relatively simple psalm settings to elaborate tropes that were included in the Mass. The Second ^ Vatican Council's reforms, particularly the mandated use of vernacular instead of Latin liturgies, relegated chant to a few churches and religious communities like Santo Domingo de Solis that kept the old ways as best they could...
Limbering up in Lewis' shadow was Mike Powell, 27, an American who had chafed under the superstar's decade-long domination of track and field. Powell's first four tries were less than Carolingian. "Something went wrong on every jump," he said. But the fifth came with a veritable thunderclap. Powell flew up against a sky heavy with humidity and threatening summer clouds. When he came down, he felt something had happened. "I knew it was far, and I knew it was close to Carl's. When I looked at it, I thought it might be a world record...
...size; whoever had the candle that lasted longest was the winner. In Borneo the opponents poured lime juice on two shellfish; the decision depended on which fish squirmed first. Though some of the roots of the jury system can be traced back more than a thousand years to the Carolingian kings of Continental Europe, such alternatives as trial by combat and trial by ordeal endured for centuries. Today the idea of trial by jury is enshrined in several guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. The Sixth Amendment, for one, gives criminal defendants "the right to a speedy and public trial...
Given a play which is all show and a show which is all play, the Loeb has done an engaging job -- though not engaging throughout the entire 3 hours. Peter Johnson's scenery, first of all is convincingly Carolingian, intimate, and cleverly peels away before our eyes a la Restoration. Lewis Smith's costumes do more than dress the play -- they brighten it immeasurably and sometimes delineate the characters more than the actors do. Robert Chapman, the director, has taught his cast Restoration manners, which some have learned better than others. Applying a veneer takes time -- the Royal Academy...