Word: crozier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe placed five in the group. Ruth Crozier of Cambridge and Nancy Lane of Belmont received bachelor of arts degrees at the Annex. Lucy Axelbank of New York City, who won the grant for study in Mexico; Ruth Fitzmayer of Louisville, Kentucky; and Luz Torruellos of San Juan, Puerto Rico, completed their masters degrees at the 'Cliffe Graduate School...
...father of England's Henry II), in which the Count glares at death over a shoulder-high shield. Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold and copper that abounded in the region of Limoges, lay in frozen lakes between the ridges of metal and islanded gems...
...third opera in as many years had its premiere last week. It was Britten's first try at satirical comedy; his first two operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia (TIME, June 9), were both dark and tragic. For the new opera, Albert Herring, Librettist Eric Crozier did a slapstick adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's cynical Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, in which an innocent village bumpkin goes off on a wild, sinful night after being chosen King of the May. Britten scored it for chamber orchestra in his familiar brittle, witty and forcefully dissonant style...
...often, in the first decade after Scott, Editor William Percival Crozier rested on the paper's proud and withering laurels. C.P.S. and the brilliant C. E. Montague, his son-in-law and chief leader writer, had built the Guardian's reputation the hard way. They had fought against the Boer War, and fought for Home Rule for Ireland, when it was all but suicidal for a paper...
...half years ago, on Crozier's death, a firmer hand took the helm. Short, bristle-haired Alfred P. Wadsworth, 55, had joined the staff in 1917, covered the Irish "trouble" when Scott was exposing and flaying the misdeeds of the British...