Word: dove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fingering the shackles that once held him. Then, quick as an amoeba, he splits in two: the man as seen by his contemporaries and the hero posterity thinks him to be. He sets out on his mission partly because of the arrival of a mystical dove (representing the Holy Ghost), while beyond the seas, certain Mexican deities stir up frightful waves to discourage the expedition...
...second half of the opera, the symbolism gets thicker: Columbus' shadow and conscience appear. At one point, Columbus I and II (a baritone and a basso, respectively) clasp each other and vow to be together in death, and the finale finds a general movement towards paradise as the dove appears in radiant glory while angels (and everybody else) sing a deafening "Hallelujah...
...DOVE WITH THE BOUGH OF OLIVE (279 pp.)-Dunstan Thompson-Simon & Schuster...
...Hemingway camp last night over whether the report was accurate or not. Hemingway at first did not mention the bronze-colored bird in his reports to the press, but later admitted he was in the rear seat and had not actually been able to see the flock as it dove in on the low-flying craft...
...have given us a most beautiful picture in Rubens' "Holy Family with the Dove" [Nov. 30]. In ancient paintings of religious life the dove represented the Holy Ghost, and the Bible says: "And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come . . ." Yet in this wonderful painting we see the Christ Child and John the Baptist fighting over the dove, and John has pulled a handful of feathers...