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Your write-up of the Holy Year is unusually good and readable. There is only one error, if I understand the thing correctly. You refer to St. Peter as the "founder of the Church." Not correct. Christ founded the Catholic Church; He built it on Peter; Peter was the rock on which the Church was established. Your error is not a rare...
...your correspondents tells a story about a lovely long word invented by a scientist to represent "the complete sound caused by the sudden entry from above of a large stone into a deep pool." As a matter of fact the word pompholygopaplilasma (for that is the correct transliteration) was invented by the comic poet Aristophanes, and may be found at 1. 249 of his play The Frogs. It is made up of pompholyx which means a bubble, and paphlisma which means a frothing or foaming up. Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound made by bubbles rising. Onomatopoetic compounds...
...Please correct the statement that was published in your magazine (Jan. 23) concerning my connection with the Buchman Group. I am enclosing the correction that was published in the New York...
...issue of TIME dated March 20, it was stated that I had commanded nine cruisers. I wish to correct this: my commands have been- five destroyers, one Yangtze River gunboat, and three airships...
With her tongue ever so slightly in her cheek, Mrs. Chester Dale, collector and authority on French painting, helped organize four months ago an exhibition of the paintings of the late Alphonse Bouguereau, barroom decorator par excellence of the Gay Nineties. For all their technical slickness, the correct perspective for looking at a Bouguereau nude was always obtained through the bottom of a 16 oz. beer glass. Critics in the chill light of a formal art gallery were not impressed with the "Back to Bouguereau" movement. Last week with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition...