Word: feast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walton, 52, last week unveiled his first opera, Troihis and Cressida, at London's Covent Garden. The melodramatic plot (of amorous scheming and betrayal in ancient Troy) was lusty, but the heavily sweet music resembled Walton's lyrical Viola Concerto more than his uproarious Belshazzar's Feast. The London Times called it "a great tragic opera," and the Daily Express hailed "the proudest hour for British music since the premiere of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes." Sir William made his own evaluation: "It won't please the highbrows . . . no atonal stuff." Moreover, he liked opera...
...Health Department has installed some 120 in hospital chapel confessionals. Rome's Pontifical Canadian College has ordered 30. Orders have streamed in from Germany and Switzerland. Said one priest from the Abruzzi mountains: "This gadget is a godsend-especially when one's parishioners, like mine, feast upon onions and garlic...
...word encyclical. Ad Coeli Reginam (to the Queen of Heaven), the Pope established May 31 as the feast of Blessed Mary. Wrote the Pope: "The Son of God reflects on His . . . Mother the glory, the majesty, the power of Regality which springs from being associated with [Him] . . . Hence the Church ... acclaims her . . . Queen of Heaven...
...morning of Islam's greatest feast day, Aid el Kebir. On that day, by sacrificing a ram. the faithful learn whether the year to come is to be peaceful and prosperous-or disastrous...
Boston's Jan Steen is an important painting by an artist as yet poorly represented in America. The Dutch rank Steen (1626-1679) with the greatest-partly for his immense illustrative skill but even more for the gusto with which he embraced life in his pictures. His Feast may actually represent his own family, and he may be the laughing man facing the observer. The baby of the crowd wears a paper crown and rules the festivities. The older children seem to be playing a game like that in the nursery rhyme, "Jack be nimble...