Word: pietas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most people today automobiles, jetplanes and the Golden Gate Bridge spontaneously evoke "It's beautiful!" Responses to Michelangelo's Pieta or Degas monotypes are more self-conscious...
Digging Deep. Much of this material had to be dug out of the murk. One of Verdi's finest songs is the poignant Pieta, Signor, composed at the end of his career and reflecting much of the same hushed awe of his Manzoni Requiem; not mentioned in the standard Verdi catalogue, the song was flushed out of an obscure Italian library by Verdi Scholar David Stivender. Other long-lost scores, such as the charming and perky Wind Quintet by Ponchielli (of La Gioconda fame) were found in editions long out of print...
Varsity football; Loeb Drama Society; House Athletics; D.U. Club; PIEta Club; Indoor Track; Varsity Lacrosse;; Harvard Varsity Club...
...Agony and the Ecstasy opens with a prologue celebrating the magnificence of Michelangelo Buonarroti's most famous sculptures: the David, Moses, the Pieta, Bacchus, the Medici tomb figures. It makes a splendid beginning. And even for the shrewdest caterers to popular taste, an act like Michelangelo's is hard to follow. What does follow in this solemn, princely spectacle -drawn by Director Carol Reed and Scenarist Philip Dunne from Irving Stone's low-to-middlebrow biography-shows every evidence of great effort, but the achievements are spotty...
...Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Ah, so, heigh-ho. Gielgud is Snow White, and sensual Alice is Grumpy. But isn't she really the Virgin Mary? Doesn't she wear the Madonna's blue and hold him in the precise attitude of the Pieta as he dies? So he must be Grumpy then, and Grumpy must be Christ. Which Walt Disney never even suspected...