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Word: phaedra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happiness . . . our father, our leader, our light, our food, our redemption, our way, our truth, our life." Fra Dominici exhorted the young monks: "As the years of tender youth flow by, the soft wax may take on any form. Stamp on it the impress not of Narcissus, Myrrha, Phaedra or Ganymede, but of the crucified Christ and of the saints." It was to this effort that Fra Angelico, for whom the goal both of life and art was "the contemplation and realization of Beauty," devoted the rest of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Bearers of Gifts | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...illa Venus dirissima quae tantummodo incastos ritus saeviter fovet. O collegium Harvardianum, quale exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura castitate tantum silvas canesque amat, et feminas omnes--pro pudor--detestatur horret fugit execratur. Quid plura? Ne argumentum explicem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Phaedra Nostra | 4/22/1955 | See Source »

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