Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good Roman Catholics, Lent means 40 days of fast, abstinence, prayer, penitential works. Three Sundays before it begins, all churches are draped with mourning purple in memory of Christ's Passion. A change occurs on Laetare ("Rejoice") or Rose Sunday, when the Church bids her faithful for a day to look beyond the sorrows of Lent to the rejoicings of the coming Easter and when rose vestments and draperies are substituted for purple. To Pope Pius XI in Vatican City, Laetare Sunday last week was especially a day for rejoicing. With use of his varicose-veined legs partially restored...
...saved money, borrowed some more, started their own London company with Julia as star. When they bought their own theatre they hit a success after two failures, went on from there. And he allowed Julia to marry him, even became quite fond of her. Julia's passion for Michael finally died a natural death. Her Maughamish reaction to the realization that she no longer loved her husband was to stretch, sigh with relief, murmur: "By God, it's grand to be one's own mistress." Now she saw Michael as nothing but a crashing bore...
...benefit of Harvard posterity a special arrangement of "Fair Harvard," written by Dr. Serge Koussevitzky and sung by the entire Glee Club with the Radcliffe Chorus, will be recorded by Victor on Friday, March 26. At the same time Bach's St. Matthew's Passion" will also be recorded during the performance at Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony...
Bach's magnificent Passion According to St. Matthew is to be performed once this year by essentially the same forces as were heard last season. Good Friday (March 26) has been chosen, appropriately enough, for the date and it is hoped that the Glee Club which is the bulwark of the performance will get the good house it deserves. Incidentally, there are still some seats available for the remaining quarter of the Symphony season at a very low rate. These seats include subscription privileges for next year and certainly offer an unusual opportunity to begin the very worthwhile "Symphony habit...
...concocted tradition. Its qualities will be determined by the Intelligence and talents of the undergraduates. The present issue reflects this policy. The writers give the impression of moving only so far as the ground seems firm under foot. And though there are few "flashes of light and anger," of passion and oracularity, there is also a healthy freedom from captiousness snobbery and the gloomy shade of Eugene Jolas...