Word: cornelia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death was a bitter milepost in the life of an extraordinary woman-a life that began in a fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...
Ready to Submit. To gay, pretty Cornelia Connelly, her son's death was a clear and overpowering answer to a prayer she had made the day before: she felt that she was too joyous and too fortunate, and asked to be allowed a sacrifice to give her love of God a deeper meaning. The source of both Cornelia's joy and piety, and the corrosive catalyst of the remainder of her turbulent life, was her husband Pierce Connelly, a charming, hypnotically persuasive ecclesiastical eclectic...
...professor, seems capable enough though, in view of his large experience, he too is a little disappointing. His character possesses two sides: poet and, ultimately, shrewd businessman. The merchant is present in his performance from the beginning, but somehow the role never grows quite large enough. The veteran actress Cornelia Otis Skinner, on the other hand, adds one more to her long list of impressive performances in the part of Undershaft's rather stupid, tradition-bound and yet charming wife...
...Church on May 13 by Harvard and Radcliffe freshman choruses. Titled by Haydn a Mass in D-Minor, it is nevertheless drawn more often than not, like Bach's B-Minor Mass, into the happy and festive key of D-Major. Performance enormously impressive. First two parts conducted by Cornelia Davenport, last three by Allan Miller. Choristers obviously very carefully rehearsed; tone lacked full-bodied resonance, but mustn't expect from them the quality of Mr. Woodworth's varsity singers. Vocal soloists adequate for the most part. No small amount of the overall impressiveness due to the marvelous parts...
...Macon, Ga. and Champaign, 111. have experimented with a phonic system developed by a Texas schoolteacher named Cornelia Sloop. This also starts with vowel sounds, then goes on to consonants, and within a few weeks, to the rules of spelling. Last year Champaign found that while 43.4% of the pupils taught by the standard method scored below the nation al reading level, the score for the Sloop-trained pupils was only 20.7% below...