Word: cecilia
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...Cassius Clay, 22, who speedily made clear that he likes Moslem women and customs. "I'm going to get me four wives and take them back home," he 'lowed. "Abigail will sit beside me feeding me grapes. Susie will be rubbing olive oil over my beautiful muscles. Cecilia will be shining my shoes, and there'll be Peaches, too. I don't know what she'll do. . . ." The listeners nod ded happily, realizing full well that this was a king's prerogative, especially a king from America...
...that remotely threatens public order, Franco let Carlos and Irene know that it was his "wish" that they not attend the Carlist rally at Montejurra. Since his future depends on Franco's whim, Carlos meekly flew off with his bride to the Canary Islands instead. His younger sister Cecilia, wearing an ivory dress and red beret, went in his place. Priming their parched throats with spurts of red wine from goatskin botas, the Carlists cheered lustily for Carlos and shouted their contempt for Juan Carlos, whom they scornfully call "Juanillo." Proclaimed one Carlist banner: "We don't want...
Yesterday morning, a young woman, a student of art history, joined us to see the Cavallini frescoes at Santa Cecilia. She had never seen them before and began at once to point out inequalities and different hands that must have taken part in the execution. The fault of teaching art history. The student is inclined to analyze and dissect the moment he encounters the object, instead of letting is soak into him as he gazes and looks, and dreams for hours together, the way I used to when young, and still should if I had youth's leisure. I recall...
...Cecilia, a Roman beauty who was whacked to death with a sword after her pagan captors failed to suffocate her in an overheated bathroom, was made the patron of music and musicians because she "sang to the Lord in her heart" on her wedding...
...course, none of it ever happened. The only facts known about St. George and St. Christopher are that they were martyrs. There is no reliable evidence for the existence of St. Cecilia, and several hundred of the 25,000 saints whose cults have been observed in the Roman Catholic Church seem to be equally fictitious. Oddly enough, most of the evidence that cut these legends down to size came not from iconoclastic disciples of Voltaire but from the Bollandists, a tiny society of Catholic priests whose job is compiling material for an accurate, fiction-free...