Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the most famous of Grays' boarders, Thomas William Lamont '92 left one professorship and one library to bear his name. Almost as well known is the name William Henry Schofield, the originator of comparative literature at Harvard. He spent eight years in Grays 38 and liked the room so...
The literate Briton, who shrinks from the bombastic, recoils even more sharply from the banal. Last week Punch blandly listed "for convenient reference . . . some of the telling images included" in a speech by Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton:
For an opera about conspiracy and murder in colonial Boston, Giuseppi Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) has had small success in the U.S. But there are those who love it, and among them is Arturo Toscanini.* Months ago he made up his mind to conduct...
* Verdi's libretto was inspired by the 1792 murder of Sweden's King Gustavus III at a masquerade in the Stockholm Opera House, but in 19th century Italy, a direct reference was impolitic. So Verdi and his librettist shifted the shenanigans to colonial Boston, disguised the King as...
The Golden Coach is the story of what happens when a band of strolling players of the Renaissance, a commedia dell' arte company from Italy, troops into a Spanish colonial seat in South America to play for the uncomprehending rurals and the hayseed nobility of the region. Camilla, the...