Word: journey
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Quintero is best known for his direction of Long Day's Journey into Night, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Eugene O'Neill drama, which was seen in Boston in the fall of 1956 before going on to New York...
Based on the poem by Cardinal Newman, Gerontius is a mystical, minutely detailed vision of man's death and of his soul's fearful but triumphant journey toward judgment. Roman Catholic Elgar first thought of setting the poem to music when he received a copy of it from a priest on his wedding day. But he let ten years elapse, during which he became increasingly aware of the gusts of new music blowing across the Channel from the Continent. When he finally got around to composing Gerontius (for the Birmingham Festival of 1900), he broke away from...
...Roman Catholic (95%) Brazil is a phenomenon of the past decade, but its roots go deep. Slaves brought their gods from Africa, and many of them changed in their new country: among the Nagôs, Yemanjá was a river goddess who became a sea goddess on the journey across the water; Calunga, the Bantu sea god, became the god of death during the slave ship trip to Brazil. The spirit deities also merged with Catholic theology: Oxala is both the Lord of Creation and Christ, Yemanjá is also Our Lady of Glory, Xango-Agodo, god of medicine...
...gimmick here, the Survey explains, is that the earth is not a sphere. The centrifugal force of its rotation makes it bulge outward at the equator. Since the oceans rotate with the earth, sea level follows the bulge. The Mississippi starts its journey 1,491 ft. above sea level at the latitudes of Minnesota. As it moves southward, its water feels more strongly the lifting effect of the earth's spin. Therefore, it can climb up the bulge, away from the earth's center. When it reaches the Gulf of Mexico, it meets the ocean, which has been...
...happy new year for varsity coach Floyd Wilson as he saw his quintet win only one of three games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to finish sixth in the Springfield College Invitation Tournament. The Crimson will journey to Providence tonight to meet favored Brown in its Ivy League opener...