Word: mundis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Journal in the past eight years), an editor sent Penn a note. It was not to congratulate him but to remind him to attend the annual meeting of a minor movie company. A colleague intercepted the note en route and appended the phrase, "Sic transit gloria mundi." But Penn accepts the dual role. "I may have to move from a big exciting story to an inconsequential one," he says, "but I do it. It's all part of the working...
...Veritas let us add sic transit gloria mundi. W. R. Folk, Major UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Professor of Aerospace Studies...
MARY ELLEN EMIG Art Teacher Rex Mundi High School Evansville...
...most triumphant and theatrical bit of all--an epilogue which wipes the grin off the face of a wildly contented audience and sends them home with the willies. A "Day in the Life" is no joke; all the buoyant comic comment finally gives way to a flood of tristitia mundi. Paul McCartney's sweet, detached, phantasmic voice begins, "I read the news today, oh boy,"--a strange, sad phrase which grows heavier as the song grows more hallucinatory. At first the news is about the Guiness heir, son of a Beer peer, dying in his Lotus elan, sad waste...
...riseth and setteth, giveth and taketh away. Tout lasse, tout casse, tout passe. Sic transit gloria mundi. Thus passes away the glory of the daylight...