Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis Xavier-and part of his body-were again at work on the island of Japan. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Xavier's landing, a party of 75 foreign notables, including bishops, priests and laymen, had come bearing with them St. Francis Xavier's right forearm in a gold, glass-paneled reliquary. Scheduled to visit most of Japan's major cities, the pilgrims were making a 17-day tour that will end next week with a Pontifical High Mass in Tokyo's Meiji Stadium...
Tangible Reminder. The right arm of St. Francis Xavier, flown from Rome by the Jesuit Order for the occasion, was severed at the elbow in 1614 and brought to Rome as a relic. The saint's body rests on the tiny Portuguese-Indian island of Goa, which had been his mission headquarters. It is exposed for public veneration once every ten years...
...commercial ends of opera management chase each other like a snake biting its own tail." He was hopeful about the unions. During the war, when Glyndebourne shut up shop, he had worked his way from clerk to the front office of a London department store. "I got on all right with the shop assistants; perhaps I will get on with the musicians' union...
Since he has been conducting in Washington, Dick Bales's record for doing right by U.S. composers is rivaled only by his famous teacher, the Eastman School's Howard Hanson, and by the annual Columbia University festival. In all, Bales has given Washington some 500 American-composed works and the premières of about...
Elsinore's rugged Kronborg Castle, setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet, still makes traveling players as welcome as its most famed tenant once did. Since 1937, Denmark has been inviting foreign troupers to re-enact the tragedy right at the scene of the crimes. (Among its title-role guests: Sir Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.) Next week, at the latest revival, Elsinore's visiting players will have traveled for the first time all the way from...