Word: regente
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...Vaughan Williams' house in Regent's Park, he played for the old (81) composer, who quickly approved. Catelinet practiced till he knew the concerto inside and out, rehearsed only twice with the orchestra (under Sir John Barbirolli) before the big night...
...identify themselves with famous forebears or Biblical characters, the artist worked out his scenes as a series of allegories. In the main scene, Charles is shown as a monarch of France, and the lady with crossed arms before him is his sister, Anne de Beaujeu, who ruled as regent from Louis XI's death in 1483 until Charles came of age. But the scene they are acting is thought to be a Biblical one: the meeting either of King Ahasuerus and Esther or of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Charles' illustrious forebear, the Emperor Charlemagne...
...Sissy? Sir: As a young man whose future lies in the South, I could not help wincing at the words of Georgia's Roy V. Harris re the university newspaper's editorial on segregation [TIME, Dec. . ... Indeed, the regent leaves you wondering just who the "little handful of sissy, misguided squirts" are. Many men, lack ing the moral courage of facing fact squarely, are misguiding themselves and others through a slanted interpretation of the words that all men are the equal creation...
...picture of and the article about Regent Roy V. Harris of the University of Georgia reminds me of the little poem by Fred Allen: If a boy is big and his brain is small, He can always go to college and play football...
After writing these words, the editors of the University of Georgia's undergraduate weekly, the Red and Black, calmly put their paper to bed and went on to other things. They had apparently forgotten about the university's powerful regent, Roy V. Harris, political bigwig of Georgia. Last week, in his own paper, the Augusta Courier, Harris himself reported how a good Georgia regent reacts...