Word: matthew
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...Italy. Since the war, his reputation has steadily grown as he has added to his small body of work a number of impressive vocal compositions: Five Fragments from Sappho for Voice and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone, Two Anacreon Songs and Requiescat (set to words by St. Matthew, Oscar Wilde and James Joyce...
...poetry chair at Oxford University was established in 1696 by a barrister who thought that "standards of learning" were in a decline, but for years the chair moldered. Except for Matthew Arnold, the occupants were seldom poets. Though it was Oxford's only elective professorship, the eligible voters (all Masters of Arts) were usually so preoccupied with such rites as translating the motets of pre-Bach polyphonists that they failed to vote...
...example, it will no longer be possible for British juries to give contemptuous damages of one farthing. Then again, the King James version of the New Testament will call for amendment; see the Gospel according to St. Matthew, V, 26: "Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." And X, 29: "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing...
...paintings of the Stations of the Cross for a starkly modern Roman Catholic chapel designed by Communist Architect Niemeyer. Rationed to two beers and a teaspoon of whisky a day, Guignard finished the brightly colored childlike paintings in 17 days while a record player blared Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Debussy's The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. The critics were ecstatic. Diario Carioca called the paintings too good for the chapel...
Around Estrada's recently published discoveries, the old argument is brewing anew. Unconvinced, Anthropologist Matthew Stirling, long with the Smithsonian, says that headrests are worldwide, and people living in similar climates are apt to have similar house designs. As for the Buddha-like figurines: "There are only a few ways," says Stirling, "for a human being to sit down." Harvard Anthropologist Gordon Willey is also skeptical. Says Willey: "The high American civilizations from Mexico to Peru had been rolling for 1,500 to 2,000 years before this possible Asiatic migration...