Word: gallused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...influence of apostate theoreticians secretly working toward a return to the old faith-or rather, to an idealized amalgam of paganism and philosophy that they took for the faith of the ancient world. Julian wanted to be a teacher, and might well have been if his half-brother Gallus (whom Vidal paints as almost a parody of the Roman voluptuary) had not been executed for misgovernment, leaving the Emperor Constantius and Julian as the last male survivors of the imperial line. With Gaul threatened by the Alamanni, Constantius reluctantly bestowed on Julian the title of Caesar and gave him both...
There was a time when it was fairly recherche to show interest in Schutz or Gallus, but that day has past, Sunday evening, a capacity audience lined up an hour in advance for tickets to a performance of liturgical music by Josquin des Prez, Buchner, and other Fifteenth and Sixteenth century composers. And this was no historical experiment, but a mature, indeed exalted, presentation...
...aspirin manufacturer's reputation, but not to a writer's. Probably for this reason, Erskine Caldwell seldom makes the lists of Meaningful Authors. Some 47 million Caldwell reprints (Certain Women, Claudelle Inglish) have been sold, most of them a salty but honestly written sort of gallus humor. But their covers-and occasionally, some of their contents-are aimed at the skin trade. Consequently, the author is too often ignored by readers who have passed the stage of handing thumb-indexed copies of God's Little Acre around high school study halls. The present collection of rural yarning...
Brilliance & Temperament. In Jânio Quadros, Brazil got a curious blend of introvert and extravert, a man of wide learning whose political thought borrows from Lincoln and Jefferson, who is a hardworking, conservative-minded public servant in office, yet who campaigns with a ward politician's gallus-snapping appeal for the mass vote, promising all things to all men. He is a man whose life has been studded with flaring spurts of brilliance and temperament. The son of an upcountry gynecologist with roving ways who was finally shot dead at 68 by the irate husband...