Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sects say they are religious; one is political. Cao Dai is a mixture of Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism with its own Pope and cardinals, and a Vatican headquarters 55 miles northwest of Saigon. Cao Dai has an expanding pantheon that includes Clemenceau, Victor Hugo and Joan of Arc and, in nomination pending his death, Sir Winston Churchill. Its Pope, Pham Cong Tac, was formerly a Saigon customs clerk. Hoa Hao is a rowdy sect of dissident Buddhists professing its belief in abstinence and prayer. Its founder, the late Huynh Phu So, augmented his fame as a healer when...
...year-old opera by the late great Richard Strauss, called Arabella. Completed 23 years after Der Rosenkavalier, in 1932, it proved to be a pale reflection of that bouquet, but it had some of its typical ingredients: 1) a text by Strauss's friend, Poet Hugo von Hofmannstahl, with its share of Viennese titillation and Gemütlichkeit; 2) lovely melodies for the high voices, including some, so melting that the music seemed to run across the stage and drown the prompter; 3) a plush orchestra filled with lavender sighs and so much busy prattle that it recalled...
...bigger and uglier than Scott's Abbotsford, surrounded by his menagerie and mistresses, he gave ducal parties (he often did the cooking) and spent money as fast as he made it. When Napoleon III pulled his 1851 coup and restored the Empire, Dumas fled to Belgium with Victor Hugo and other republicans. "The difference," says Maurois, "was that Hugo was fleeing before a tyrant, Dumas before the bailiffs...
Michael Karpovich, Chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will become the first holder of the newly established Curt Hugo Reisinger Professorship of Slavic Languages and Literatures, McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, announced last week...
Despite a suggestive title and a penny-dreadful type of introduction, promising a shocking glimpse of marital infidelity, the movie is still much closer to Victor Hugo's original Ruy Blas than to a Mickey Spillane epic. For one thing, the characters are far more interested in the seventeenth century ideal of glory than in the "passion" currently popular in drugstore circles. Alto, most of them are too busy intriguing against each other to get worked up over a love affair--even if it does involve the Queen of Spain...