Word: leos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is no reason why an Ivy athlete couldn't make it in the pros. In fact, we're interested in drafting Harvard's Bobby Leo and Dave Davis." Although concerned about the relatively small stature of the Harvard candidates, he affirmed that he "would not trade size for talent...
Leonardo da Vinci during his lifetime was renowned as the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, the "universal man," at once a brilliant painter, muralist, draftsman, engineer and architect. But he was almost as well known for his inability to see his projects through. "Alas," cried Pope Leo X, "Leonardo will never finish anything. He thinks of the end even before he has begun." As a result, while some 6,000 pages of his notes and casual sketches survive, there are only 15 known Leonardo paintings-and some experts place the number as low as nine...
...Bible. MGM's own epic turned out to be a mixture of real life and reel life. President Robert H. O'Brien showed a 25-minute promotional film featuring clips from the company's latest motion pictures, the theme being that MGM's Leo the Lion has been bellowing forth lately with a "roar heard round the world." For one conspicuous member of the audience, that was not enough...
CAPELLA PAOLINA (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Art Historian Leo Steinberg analyzes two Michelangelo frescoes in this special filmed in the Pauline and Sistine chapels in Rome. Repeat...
...brilliant Augustinian friar Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg's Castle Church and, in effect, began the Reformation. It was also the beginning of his excommunication by Rome; four years later, Pope Leo X drummed the great heretic out of the church. Now two ecumenically minded men from St. Louis have asked Pope Paul VI if it isn't time to end the grudge. Wrote the Rev. Walter Riess, a Lutheran minister, and Edward Meiners, a Catholic layman: "Your lifting of his excommunication would voice to all Protestants a fresh expression of your...