Word: nunc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is more to come. Britain's Durrell, 56, who is currently visiting the U.S. for the first time, is already at work on a sequel, to be titled Numquam. "The whole is based on a passage from Petronius," he explains, "which talks about now or never, nunc ant numquam. In the old days, the passage says, the women would mess themselves up and go on top of the mountain and pray for rain, and believe in it, and say, 'Now or Never,' and the rain would come. In the modern age, we don't believe...
...Tallis' Nunc Dimittis, a beautiful work formed of alternating solo chants and choral responses, was generally well-performed. Martin Kessler, whose voice is light but accurate, seemed almost unconcerned as he tossed off the bass solos...
...three Horatian poems, the version of the Cleopatra ode (Nuncest bibendum, nunc pede libero/ pulsanda tellus ...) seems the best. The first stanza is ecstatic...
...nunc ipse in imo est, vobis ostentari paratus. Winnie ille Pu." Hardly the sort of prose one expects to read in a bestseller. But a bestseller was exactly what Alexander Lenard's Latin translation of A. A. Milne's classic turned out to be. Winnie Ille Pu sold 100,000 copies. On every reader's parsed lips was the question: Who was Translator Alexander Lenard...
...dixit Lepus nunc mutata voce...