Word: fi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heaven." "St. Philomena" was "discovered" on May 24, 1802 in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on Rome's Via Saleria Nova as the skeleton of a 13-to 15-year-old girl with a badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been...
...since he has tenaciously guarded his private life from view. He and his wife (he has two daughters, both at college) live in a big and ancient house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, have a summer place in New Hampshire. Land likes to relax with his large hi-fi collection, occasionally plays tennis, is a fast and retentive reader...
Sorrow Is Out. Sipping Scotch and tinkering with his hi-fi in his Left Bank apartment under the surveillance of a cageful of doves, Lamorisse at 38 fits the description once given him as "a man continually on vacation." The son of a well-to-do family of Flemish descent, he did poorly in school, never considered any work worthy of serious pursuit until he discovered film making. He still writes and edits his films in his living room, with the help of his wife and within earshot of Pascal and his other two children...
After years of platitudes about the Good Partner Policy, designed to let the U.S. off cheaply, Washington seemed fi nally to be coming to grips with its neighbors' problems. The U.S. choices seem to be only two: give Latin America help, Marshall-Plan style, or see the area hunger perilously and indefinitely...
...lunch, she used the French words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said: "Now we are pigeons, and we make a little nest on the desk with our arms." Then she played hi-fi classical records, hoping to spur "appreciation for music throughout later life...