Word: protectress
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...English Department, that protectress of our literary heritage, seemed to stand steadfast in her resistance to the winds of change then sweeping through university education with all the destructive fickleness of an undergraduate. She demanded that her concentrators study Shakespeare for a semester—a requirement, relatively unique among elite colleges, that apparently will continue. Other mandates included a semester of American literature as well as two classes on literature before the 19th century. And the gate through which all had to pass was the year-long chronological introduction to English literature, 10a and 10b. In her wisdom...
...associates the mysterious black Madonnas that popped up all over Europe in the Middle Ages and Mexico's "Little Dark One," the Virgin of Guadalupe, with Mary's affinity for the humble. She can muster historical support for the Mary described by spiritual adventurer China Galland--"a protectress who doesn't allow her children to be hunted, tortured, murdered and devoured"--and neo-Jungian Clarissa Pinkola Estes' assertion that "Mary would be a teenage-girl-gang leader" today. If this seems a bit all embracing (since the hunters, torturers and murderers no doubt have their own Marys), that...
...pain as the clock is stabbed by the clockmaker's tools. Within this sugar-puff setting, we appreciate the somber purity and beauty that Hoffmann so prizes. Only a hopeless romantic could create a nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures, Hoffmann revels in the sweetness and sensitivity of kind and imaginative children. His careful touch in relating the wonders of things as majestic as first love is something akin to a perfectly...
...Father William Frigo, associate pastor of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in the barrio, said recently, "Many of our vendetta families have no sons left." In the past fortnight he has organized special Masses dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is revered by Mexicans as their protectress. The prayer services for civil peace have attracted overflow crowds, for the time being, the violence has stopped...
Saint-Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze. New York fell in love at first sight. She became the protectress of the cat show, the horse show, the sportsmen's show, the prizefights and circuses. Around 1905, a severe storm ripped away her cloak; from then on she was bolted securely down. She presided over William Jennings Bryan's nomination for President, saw Jack Dempsey knock out Bill Brennan...