Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When, in 1948, the time came to fill the newly created Zemurry-Stone Chair, the occupant had to be picked with especial care for she (the grant specified a female) would be the first woman professor in Harvard's history. The lady chosen had to be both outstanding in her...
Miss Cam was born in 1885 in a tiny English village near Oxford. One of a large family she was educated at home in the "Old Victorian Tradition," a regime that supplied enough routine for a dozen lives. "I adored reading," she says. "I regarded books as an escape . . . the...
The tapestries, representing the four seasons of life, are crowded with enough human figures, astrological signs, pagan gods and goddesses, animals, buildings and landscapes to satisfy the most voracious gallerygoer. They gave an added fillip to the Met's opening last week of its refurbished galleries of medieval and...
Ondine (adapted by Maurice Valency from the French of Jean Giraudoux) brings Audrey Hepburn again to Broadway-or rather, Audrey Hepburn brings Ondine there, as representing her choice from among many scripts. She will almost certainly become the acting sensation of the season, for in Ondine, she has found a...
Conspicuously active among the protesters were a number of French Dominicans. Their tonsured heads and white habits made a medieval anachronism at workers' meetings and on committees of manifesto makers. But their attitude toward Rome's authority smacked strongly of the Gallicanism of 300 years ago.