Word: pater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imitations of the authentic French originals sprang up in England like dubious mushrooms- gutter lovers, Beau Brummels, professional sensualists, practical jokers, drug fiends. Mildest, most influential apostle of the new, sensuous estheticism was Oxford's Walter Pater. As a child, he had loved to don a surplice and "preach sermons to his admiring Aunt Betty." As a youth, he had avoided horse play ("I do not seem to want a black eye"). As a professor, he coined a famed phrase when he solemnly urged his students "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most...
Columbians have long referred to Dr. Butler as "Almus Pater." The luster of world acclaim he received through his ubiquitous personal activities he passed on to his school. He has been decorated by 15 foreign nations and honored with degrees from 37 universities. H. G. Wells once called him "the champion international visitor and retriever of foreign orders and degrees." President for 20 years of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he won half a 1931 Nobel Prize. Friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him Nicholas Miraculous (after St. Nicholas Thaumaturgis, the "Miracle Maker"). Butler himself, never a diffident man, wrote some...
...volume containing 85 excellent color reproductions, ranging from a 13th-Century Byzantine Madonna and Child to Paul Cézanne's 19th-Century Still Life. Paired off with each picture are such superior selections from world literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne on Fra Angelico, Walter Pater on Botticelli, William Blake on William Blake...
...Perhaps the most famous of all Florence's paintings-Botticelli's Birth of Venus-was reported missing. The Germans had carried it off. said a cable last week, "in payment for winter coal." Florence had apparently lost a supreme product of the period which, wrote Walter Pater, represented "the care for physical beauty, the worship of the body, the breaking down of those limits which the religious system of the middle age imposed on the heart and the imagination...
Father (Frederick H.) Sill, founder and headmaster emeritus of Connecticut's Kent School, celebrated his 70th birthday reading congratulatory letters from alumni to their beloved "Pater," wore as usual the monastic habit (called by the schoolboys "the great white tent") of the Episcopal Order of the Holy Cross...