Word: exaltedness
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Who but a Greek has a better right to raid Greek tragedy? Kay Cicellis (Ten Seconds from Now), a Greek who writes the kind of English most English writers might envy (she learned the language as a child), rifles not so much the stories as the emotional climate of Sophocles...
By no coincidence, young (43) Father Hesburgh has made old (118) Notre Dame a striking exception to his charges. In his nine years as president, football-famed Notre Dame, where Knute Rockne was once more revered than St. Thomas, has become a serious intellectual citadel. In the anguishing process, Father...
As the Davidians receded into the new artist competitors loomed. The most threatening: Eugène Delacroix. Ingres was now the champion of classicism, though it was his own brand. Delacroix and his followers were romantics who worshiped not Raphael but Rubens. While Ingres exalted line and form and insisted...
This is not to imply that patients have exalted notions of the volunteer. As Pitzele has observed, "they may regard the students as a source of food and cigarettes, as entertainers, as a way of getting off the ward for a while, or as employees extraordinary of the hospital and...
"See the great China (pronounced Chee-nah) model fashion's new couture-inspired designs that you can sew yourself," cried the six-column newspaper ad for Macy's 1961 Spring Fabric Fashion Show. "Whether or not," continued the pitch, "you're an aficionado who adores China'...