Word: maximus
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Sacred music has no part in our lives. In a time when even the Roman Church--pontifex maximus and all--has abandoned the Latin tongue and with it most traditions, there remains barely a shadow of the meaning that church music once had for its listeners. The beauty of the compositions remains intact, however, and Sunday evening's concert was in a nearly ideal setting with the Harvard Glee Club joined by the boys of the St. Paul Choir Scool...
Since football is every bit as important to the Texas social structure as bourbon and the Baptist Church, it is only fitting that the fair should kick off with the annual Texas-Oklahoma game. This Southwestern tribal ritual more closely resembles a vigorous bloodletting in the Circus Maximus than a friendly athletic contest. Instead of musky wine from handwrought goblets, though, the spectators knock down rye whisky from leather-bound flasks while the hot-blooded young gladiators, as they say down home, whup ole Billy outa one another. Turns out, for the first time in five years, it is Oklahoma...
...racial pride, and I think we're learning we must unite and stop trying to show our puppy-dog good will by laying a hatful of feathers and an honorary chieftainship on every "white savior" that comes among us. Maybe a few arrows in the glutens maximus would be more apropos...
...cinema in the realistic presentation of sex. Until recently, actors came on as fully clothed as if they were lunching at the Plaza. Then, all of a sudden, playwrights and directors decided that nudity was significant, artistic and serious. In 1965, Jean-Paul Marat briefly flashed his gluteus maximus in Marat/Sade. As the marquis warned in the same play, "The revolution of the flesh will make all your other revolutions seem like prison mutinies." And so it almost...
...magnificent cast-iron statue of the Lion of Judah. Though he is pleased with the return of the symbol of his legendary succession from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Emperor Haile Selassie is not satisfied. The trophy he wants most still stands near Rome's Circus Maximus. It is a finely carved, 83-ft. granite obelisk that once rose above Ethiopia's ancient capital of Axum...