Word: pueri
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...coepit scribere fabulam heroicam quam discipuli legere amarent. Appellabatur Daimon, et incipi-bat simplicissime: "Olim erat in insula Herakleia puer nomine Daimon . .." Case primas paucas paginas exhibuit quattuor ex suis discipulis et hi constituerunt illi auxilium ferre ad fabulam scribendam. Case dixit: "Ab eventu ad eventum procedebamus, intellexi, si pueri ipsi fabulam invenirent, certe excitaturam esse...
...Miss Curtis seemed intimidated by this Salome-like display but still bettered her prosaic performance in the Schutz. The two male soloists sang adequately, Robert Gartside's illustrative facial antics notwithstanding. I wished for vastly superior pronunciation from everyone concerned. The highlight of the Mozart was the translucent Laudate Pueri in which the choral balances were exact in well-intoned and excellently phrased singing. The chamber orchestra played quite vigorously even if the conductor, Iva Dee Hiatt, displaying no left-hand technique, threw them to their own devices with her embarrassing Signal Corps gestures...
...Theorizing that musical talent is an inherited trait, famed Italian Otolaryngologist Leopoldo Fiori Ratti gave musical aptitude tests to the parents of the Vatican's Pueri Cantori choirboys and other children picked at random. At the Second International Congress of Human Genetics in Rome last week, he reported that 60% of Pueri Cantori parents had high musical aptitudes (though not necessarily training or interest), while only 20% of other parents showed high scores...
...saddened by the educational news which appeared in TIME, Sept. 15 under the heading "Vale, Pueri." I was also saddened by that Latin. If one were addressing one boy alone, salve and vale would be used, but as several pueri were addressed, the hail and farewell should have been salvete and valete respectively. I trust Mr. Solomon was misquoted...
...things began to change. Each year, as Michael Solomon greeted his first class ("Salve, pueri ..."), he noticed that there were fewer & fewer faces before him. One by one, his colleagues left the school, for the time came when there were not enough pupils to go around. Last year, out of 4,000 students in DeWitt Clinton High School, only 70 signed up for Latin, and the advanced and elementary classes had to be combined...