Word: domenica
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...traditionally been known as "the fifth evangelist," pealing out a musical gospel from some celestial organ loft. "For me," wrote French organist Charles Marie Widor in 1907, "Bach is the greatest of preachers." Two years ago, three Venetian music lovers wrote to the Vatican weekly Osservatore della Domenica, suggesting that Bach, even though he was a Lutheran, ought to be canonized as a saint...
...suspicion that haunts Western analysts is that the North is cynically-and successfully-exploiting the world's desire for peace in order to create pressure for a long or even permanent bombing pause. The Vatican weekly L'Osservatore della Domenica last week printed its harshest criticism yet of U.S. bombing policy, calling it a "blind alley" that undermines the U.S. "moral and political" position. Leaders of West Germany's Social Democratic Party urged Washington to end the bombing. Several U.S. Congressmen also called for a bombing pause and immediate negotiations, including Senator Robert Kennedy. "It seems...
...strewn with such showoff, jawbreaker words as armigerous, pogonologist, acescent, enchiridion, ochlocracy.* He lapses frequently into ungrammatical constructions and even into error. In his hands, the Court of St. James's, to which all ambassadors to Britain pay their respects, loses its possessive case. L'Osservatore della Domenica, a Vatican weekly, is falsely identified as the more familiar Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. Anyone who dials Socrates Lovinger's number, as given by Carson-LE 5-3221-is bound to get the wrong dog. And where Carson wants to score a point, he fudges: "More people...
Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...
...collection has not always had so tranquil a home. In 1959 l'affaire Lacaze broke, filling headlines for weeks with accusations between Domenica and her adopted son Paulo, who said that her brother, Jean Lacaze, president of the Walter mines, tried to murder him to grab his inheritance. In 1961 the case was dismissed on grounds of insufficient evidence. Even last week Domenica preferred obscurity, not attending the exhibition's formal opening. Said she: "These paintings were made by artists whom Paul Guillaume chose because he believed in their genius. They belong first of all to those...