Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Added Mary Louise: "If he had been a devout practicing Catholic when I met him, I would never have let him leave his church. I majored in religion at Vassar, and I believe all religions are good...
Leland and Mary Louise, both 21 and planning to be married this week in a Lutheran church, called the suit a "malicious" attempt to block their marriage. He had thought about giving up his faith before he met Mary Louise, said Leland...
Last week the successors of the Little Brothers, now the world's second largest religious order (largest: the Society of Jesus, membership 33,000), wound up their first convention in six years. The scene: Assisi. The 94 friars from 31 countries who met for a two-week General Chapter represented some 30,000 Franciscans, O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor). Their garb, if not vile, was still mostly the traditional brown, rough cloth and sandals. As for their discourse, it was anything but brief...
...Euridice, a work free of such "disfiguring abuses" as stock romantic situations and metaphorical arias. For years, he preached the virtues of Greek naturalism. After Gluck's death, better composers than he utilized some of his reforms, while Orfeo all but disappeared from the standard repertory (the Met revived it two years ago). Now the endless search for operatic treasure has driven the recordmakers back to Gluck; both Epic and Decca have issued nearly complete versions of the opera (and RCA Victor is recording its own version in Rome...
...cows to Boston, the constable's duty was to see that nobody drank "more than was good for him." In time, however, some did, and the taverns caused various disturbances with England, including a war. In 1747, when a fire turned the General Court into a street, its members met at the Royal Exchange Tavern, where, later, the only duel ever to be fought on Boston Common was started...