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...painting, Le Lorgneur or The Sidelong Glance (opposite), by famed 18th-century French Painter Jean-Antoine Watteau. Filling the rest of the gallery will be a loan exhibition of some 50 paintings and drawings by such other 18th-century French painters as Pater, Lancret, Boucher and Fragonard, testimony to the fact that the tone of elegance and grace set by Watteau in his dreamlike scenes of pastoral dalliance and fétes galantes continued straight through his century until the French Revolution...
...proud and simple label, "Chase," and whose domestically detailed quizzes have been immortalized by a bit of campus doggerel: "What were the colors of Pamela's socks ?/Long white jobs with classy clocks./What did Don Quixote masticate ?/Old fried pidgeon served up in state." Whether reading Pater aloud by her own fireside, working out a Latin anagram, or putting her students through their paces in class, Teacher Chase cast her spell over thousands of Smith girls by her uninhibited showmanship, once astounded her doctor by babbling off the dates of all the Roman Emperors while coming...
...Jesuit priests on the faculty of St. Louis University sat down one summer day in 1950 and composed an unprecedented letter to the Vatican. "Reverende Pater, pax Christi," they wrote in their best Latin to the prefect of the library. Then they asked permission to carry out as ambitious a project as their university had ever undertaken. They wanted to microfilm the Vatican Library and bring it back to St. Louis. Neither Historian Lowrie Daly nor Librarian Joseph Donnelly knew "whether the project was possible, or even whether the Vatican would consider it. But we thought it was worth...
...enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti pectore nunc praesentire potest quam mira et magna Plautus et Bacchus et fervidus ille puer et solutis Gratiae zonis in campo et area nostria iamiam effecturi sint? Nam hac in fabula Plautina est quidam filius qui scortillum venustum perdite amat; est fili pater, decrepitus senex, qui una cum filio non modo potat sed etiam amicam ductat atque clam uxorem suo animo volup facit; est denique eiusdem fili mater quae victrix virum accubantem cum corona amplexum amicam conspicit et - o imperium uxoriosum - e lustris rapit. Sed de argumento satis superque dictumst...
...Munster, one evening last week, everyone seemed to be hurrying to Ludgerus Square. They poured through the streets of the bomb-blasted old German town, past posters proclaiming "The City Comes to Hear Pater Leppich!" and under streamers announcing "Pater Leppich Speaks." Staring down from smashed churches, lampposts and walls were countless pictures of a craggy-faced Roman Catholic priest...