Word: ovide
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...honor Queen Wilhelmina's jubilee, 58-year-old Composer Hendrik Andriessen, director of The Hague's Royal Conservatory, had written a new score for an old drama. The grisly story, adopted by Dutch Poet Jan Engelman from one of the episodes in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, tells how pure-voiced Philomela is raped by Tereus, her brother-in-law, who cuts out her tongue to enforce her silence. The sisters get revenge by feeding Tereus the remains of his slaughtered son at a banquet. At that point the gods intervene and change all three into birds-Philomela into...
Other living Kinsolving clergymen: Cousins Arthur Lee ("Little Tui"), popular youth leader and rector of Trinity Church, Princeton, N.J.; Charles J., rector of the Church of the Holy Faith, Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Walter Ovid, rector of Calvary Church, Summit, N.J.; Uncles Wythe L. and Arthur B., retired...
Washington, which already has an engineering school, had the word of Northwestern University's Engineering Dean Ovid Wallace Eshbach that the money is not enough to finance a new school. Washington was also favored by the trustee bank. Its argument rejected by the Cook County Court, Washington appealed and last month won a decision from the Illinois Appellate Court. Next week St. Louis U. plans to petition the Illinois Supreme Court for another test...
...life, that was enough. He painted her as Venus in furs, as all three Graces, and (for her bedroom) as a pornographic maiden attacked by a shepherd. He had had plenty of practice when he received from the King of Spain an order for 112 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Never has any painter received so gigantic a commission"). Before he finished, the King ordered 24 more. Then gout caught Rubens' hands. Paralysis followed. When he died, he proudly left his family four million guilders. "I love life," he had once observed, "for life is good...
Since anthropology then consisted mainly of the Greek and Roman myths as related by Ovid, he had to rely on his imagination. He painted a troop of satyrs and demi-mortals congregating in a meadow around a hollow tree, a young bibulous Bacchus, a grinning Silenus straddling a donkey. Most of the company were engaged in making a racket on tin pans, to coax a swarm of bees into a cluster. Title: The Discovery of Honey...