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VISITORS to the Reception Center of the TIME and LIFE Building these next few weeks may feast their eyes on a majestic sight: a full-color photographic reproduction (one-third scale) of Michelangelo's great frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. The Sistine ceiling depicts the Creation, the Fall of Man and the Flood; an altar wall shows the Last Judgment...
RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY, under the direction of Eliot Forbes '40, in a repertoire concert that will include works by Brahms, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Beveridge and Le Jeune. Paine Hall; 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $1.00; $.50 for undergraduates. At the Coop, Holden Chapel, or at the door...
...three drawings by Michelangelo, the sculptor struggles to discover the proper angle for a tensely muscular leg, later carved in marble for the famous figure Night in the Medici Chapel of San Lorenzo in Florence. Titian is represented by a study of legs done in thick black chalk a decade before the resulting painting, Martyrdom of St. Lorenzo, was hung in the church of the Jesuits in Venice. On a sheet of paper measuring 5¼ in. by 5¾ in., Leonardo da Vinci crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes...
Though the play was probably first given in a chapel, its tone is better suited to a tavern. Almost any place would have been better than Boylston Hall; my own choice would have been Cronin's. But Ted Morris, who directed the play (the program notes modestly proclaim, "The unnatural stiffness of the occasion is Ted Morris's fault"), Yoshi Shimizu, who made "all the sights for sure eyes" (i.e. the set, the costumes, and the props), and Bill Wilder, who composed "the heard melodies" transformed each of the obstacles which nature had put in their way into an advantage...
...Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, 71, who rarely appears in public, was on hand for the gala occasion. Well guarded by police, Salazar boarded the Santa Maria, smiled benignly from the bridge for 30 minutes of vivas by the crowd, then descended to the ship's chapel to pray at the flower-decked casket of the young third pilot, the only fatality in the rebel capture of the Santa Maria. Across the wide Atlantic in Brazil, where he is enjoying asylum, rebel Captain Galvão added his own carnival note to the saga: he announced that...