Word: nobleman
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...Boom. The Maryknoll success story typifies but does not tell the whole story of monastic life in mid-20th century. From the time (circa 530) that a young Italian nobleman, Benedict of Nursia, smashed the statue of Apollo on Monte Cassino and founded his famed abbey, the monastery has been the heart of Christendom. Even after the Middle Ages monasteries continued to dominate religious life, provided much of the fire of reform within the Catholic Church. But with the 18th century the monastery was relegated to a dark corner. More devastating than the French Revolution's "freeing" of nuns...
Last week the cops got all the evidence they needed. Louis Métra parked his car on the fashionable Boulevard Suchet. got out and walked a few feet, then satisfied that he was not being followed, returned to his car for a small package of opium for a nobleman in a nearby apartment. At this point, the cops jumped out of their Buick convertible, caught him with the goods and arrested the onetime foe of Parisian vice for dope peddling...
...Haydn's day, every culture-loving nobleman supported a composer on the place. Prince Nicolas ("the Magnificent") Esterhazy fully supported Haydn and his orchestra for nearly 30 years. The composer had to wear a court uniform and dished up music on order, but he got his chance to become the era's most famed composer. A generation later, public concerts began to thrive and noble patronage to bow out. In 20th century Europe the state shoulders the load. In the U.S., until recently, there has been only a scattering of such dedicated individuals as the late Elizabeth Sprague...
Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov. New translation of a little-known but brilliant 19th century Russian portrait of a young nobleman who is too weary to live, love, or even get out of bed (TIME...
Pure Farce. Modern readers will find that The Lion holds up remarkably well. Its plot is pure farce, involving a phony British nobleman's quest for the hand of an American heiress, a social-climbing American mother, and a visiting English lady named Mrs. Wollope, who like Mrs. Trollope is collecting data on the domestic manners of the Americans. In the course of the play, Colonel Wildfire helps rout the phony nobleman-and Mrs. Wollope as well. Sample dialogue...