Word: mantilla
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Last week, wearing a grown-up black dress and a black mantilla, Philippa sat with queenly poise in a box of Detroit's gold-spangled Masonic Temple Auditorium and heard the Detroit Symphony play her Nocturne before 7,000 schoolchildren. Conductor Valter Poole shrewdly programmed it after Mozart's First Symphony, composed when Mozart was eight. Neither score was great, but both showed great promise...
Basically, said Writer Pattee, Latin America has two types of Catholicism: 1) "the black dress and the mantilla"-the "sentimental brand practiced in large measure by pious older ladies" and on Sundays by "the younger women, dressed more to please the younger men than God"; 2) the intellectual-the brand practiced by a minority aware of "the full significance of Catholicism as an 'ideology.' " In almost every Latin American land but Mexico, he concluded, the masses have "committed [virtual] apostasy...
...back of the hall men and women in full evening dress made no attempt to control their laughter. Dignified gentlemen sat with handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths and tears of mirth streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak's Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience...
...John Sloan, plump wife of famed Painter-Teacher John Sloan of Manhattan, President of the Society of Independent Artists. Mrs. Sloan's definition was publicly pronounced during the fifth annual "Carnival of Imagination," a benefit ball and pageant for the Halton Endowment. Clad in ruffles and a Spanish mantilla, Mrs. Sloan appeared as "The Art of Emotion," while her husband represented "The Art of Imagination" and others joined the ceremonies as "The Art of Parenthood," "The Art of Chicken Love." Mrs. Sloan's winning definition: "Art is that beauty which the imagination has created and which awakes in the observer...
...mantilla should be about two yards square. It is a venerable test of quality that a good mantilla should be sheer enough to be pulled through a wedding ring...