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Wilhelm, the man who made relief pitching an art, amassed a 143-122 record in 21 years on the mound. The knuckleballing hurler had a stellar 2.52 career FRA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 1/8/1985 | See Source »

...must surely be the longest individual part in the operatic literature. The saint appears in seven of the eight tableaux and does much, if not most, of the singing in each. At the composer's request, Giuseppe Crisolini-Malatesta based the sets and costumes on paintings by Fra Angelico, Giotto and Matthias Grünewald. As staged by Sandro Sequi, scenes are played in small, diorama-like boxes to emphasize the work's distant, legendary quality. The only serious dramatic defect is the sixth scene, the sermon to the birds, which was intended to be the high point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Let the Secrets of Glory Open | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

...reason for having a strong military [according to the right] was ultimately to protect our women..."After all." [Congressman John] Schmidt argued never for a moment doubting that the FRA would mean instant conscription of American women into combat duty...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The War at Home | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

...framed by medieval chests set below. Undaunted by tradition, Slive and Freedberg replaced the small medieval works with larger seventeenth century canvases--a group which is better fitted to the room and more representative of the Fogg's strengths. (The early Renaissance works, among them gilded gems such as Fra Angelico's Crucifixion, are now contained in a small grey-blue jewelbox of a gallery upstairs...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Old Friends, Well Met | 5/3/1977 | See Source »

...twelve-volume masterwork on the rise and fall of civilizations. And when he was done with his originally planned ten volumes, the historian noted the end as precisely as he had noted the beginning: "Finis. London, 1951, June 15,6:25 p.m., after looking once more this afternoon at Fra Angelico's picture of the beatific vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Vision of God's Creation | 11/3/1975 | See Source »

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