Word: dame
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Died. Ruth St. Denis, 90, grande dame of modern dance, whose foresight and inspiration helped change the U.S. from a choreographic wasteland to what is today one of the world's foremost centers of dance; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Starting with classical ballet in 1893, Ruth St. Denis freed it from its formal strictures and blended it with Indian and other Asian dance forms until she produced something uniquely her own. In 1915, with husband Ted Shawn, she formed the Denishawn School and company, from whose ranks sprang such stars as Doris Humphrey and Martha Graham...
...tends his rosebushes, his wife practices her horsemanship. In the city, they occasionally go to first nights at the theater and constantly browse through the galleries for new paintings. Those that are not at the Matignon decorate their six-room, Louis XV- and XVI-furnished apartment overlooking Notre Dame Cathedral from Paris' fashionable and romantic Ile Saint-Louis...
...guilty. The Justinian Code of the Byzantine Empire, for example, denied church sanctuary primarily to criminals convicted of high treason or sacrilege. In medieval Europe, churches were allowed to protect convicted criminals-like Esmeralda, the condemned witch and murderess of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame-on condition that they forfeit all their property and belongings to the state. The privilege of church sanctuary began to give way during the Protestant Reformation, and there has never been any legal precedent for it in U.S. jurisprudence...
...Notre Dame, Cornell President James Perkins contended that U.S. society and the universities must heed the romantic reformers...
...glossolalia has been among college-level Roman Catholics. The movement began last year, when three young theology instructors at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh met to pray and found themselves, according to their testimony, simultaneously speaking in tongues. Similar experiments have since been tried at other Catholic schools. At Notre Dame, there is a cell of 30 glossolalia enthusiasts, including students and teachers from nearby St. Mary's College, who meet one night a week for prayer session...