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...that slowly ascend into the heavens, where they become clouds--are new. Robustly conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, the opera's simple Midwestern melodies provide an ideal complement to the graceful stage pictures, while the cast, headed by soprano Ashley Putnam (St. Theresa I) and baritone Sanford Sylvan (St. Ignatius), projects Stein's words and Thomson's music with true joie de vivre...
...Durang's one act play, "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You," was nearly prevented from running in Boston and St. Louis. Catholic groups were offended by Durang's satirization of parochial school education and Catholic attitudes in the central character, the murderous and manipulative Sister Mary. "What I didn't realize in writing the play," says Durang, "is that religion is just a really strong thing and if people feel that you're attacking their beliefs or making fun of those beliefs it's very enraging." Durang was aggravated, however, by the adhominem tactics of these groups, which...
Abrahams started the annual Ig Nobel ceremony in 1991 with the support of Warren Seamans, director of the MIT museum. The prizes are a legacy from the estate of the legendary Ignatius ("Ig") Nobel, the inventor of excelsior (packing material) and co-inventor of soda...
...report, which was written by study coordinator Susan Ignatius, offers 19 principal recommendations that range from hiring more clerical staff to ensuring that Haitian refugees interned at Guantanamo Bay do not receive nationality-based treatment...
Despite his pragmatism, Riordan has a strong philosophical bent. A Jesuit- educated Irish Catholic reared in New Rochelle, New York, he studied under French philosopher Jacques Maritain at Princeton. Riordan still adorns his speech with quotations from St. Ignatius and G.K. Chesterton. He has a Midas touch as well. After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he moved to Los Angeles in 1956 and parlayed his $80,000 inheritance into a ) stock-market fortune. Today, after starting his own law firm and plunging into a 20-year succession of venture-capital deals, he is worth $100 million...