Word: friar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropped by the Yale Library to show Marston and Map Curator Alexander O. Victor a slim volume that Witten had acquired from a private collection in Europe. The book included the map and 21 pages of text, which were a transcription of an account of the expedition led by Friar John de Piano Carpini across Central Asia in 1245-47. Friar Carpini himself wrote a well-known account of his trip in 1247, but the version in Witten's book was transcribed by another Franciscan friar, identified only as C. de Bridia, who had heard of the expedition secondhand...
From the big hill in the middle of the unimaginative, only sloping course, it looked like an all-Friar show-for the first four miles. Barry Brown, second to Hewlett last year, took the lead from the gun and never looked back...
...Kazantzakis died eight years ago at 74. His heirs have spent the intervening years extending his legend with carefully doled out translations of unpublished texts. Report to Greco-is the latest entry in the lengthy procession, which is by no means over: his widow Helen and his friend Kimon Friar, who spent four years translating Kazantzakis' Odyssey, are both engaged in writing biographies. Neither can do the man, or the legend, more service than this awkward, graceless but powerful personal testament...
...hope Mr. Conley (that's the way he's listed on the program) fancies himself a songwriter rather than a playwright; the songs are the highlights of the show. The singing argument ("Oh Yeah, Well Who's Got Christmas?") between the aged sorcerer (Bill Smock) and the medicant friar (Steve Bergman) over the relative merits of magic and religion is easily as good as anything I've heard at Harvard--including Pudding Shows...
...likely that the experienced runners will compete against B.U. since the Providence meet won't make it into the record books. The Friar contest is unofficial since it won't include competition in every event...