Word: romane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company had a villain without peer. He seemed kindly enough backstage but when he strode before an audience as Baron Scarpia, Chief of the Roman Police in Puccini's Tosca, he became so sinister and malevolent that he set an all-time standard for that melodramatic role. Antonio Scotti was stabbed by 17 different Toscas from the time the opera had its U. S. premiere in 1901 until he sang his farewell (TIME. Jan. 30, 1933). Last week when the Metropolitan revived Tosca for the first time in three years, there...
Aristocrats among the 123,304 U. S. Roman Catholic nuns are those who belong to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Called "Mothers" and "Madames," they run many a swank day and boarding school, teach French and other polite subjects to good little Protestants as well as Catholic girls. Their order was founded in 1800 by Madeleine Sophie Barat, who was canonized by her Church in 1925. To qualify as a Madame, a girl of respectable parentage and unblemished reputation must take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, study and teach for five or six years, then undergo...
...expect politics to make strange bedfellows, but if Father Coughlin wants to engage in political bundling with Huey Long, or any other demagogue, it is only a fair first move to take off his Roman cassock...
Readers who know that Hilaire Belloc is himself a poet, a lusty controversialist and a belligerent Roman Catholic, anticipated some pyrotechnic digressions, and they were not disappointed. Author Belloc's Milton resounds with Bellockian bellows, on every subject from the present state of the nation to the sniveling rascality of a 17th Century renegade. On Milton the poet he casts a keen professional eye, melting with reverence most often but sometimes, when he catches Milton sporting with a mediocre Muse, sparkling with contempt. To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic...
Professor Mason Hammond defends the Latin requirement for an A.B. degree by proving beyond all possibility of refutation that Latin is a cultural language, that Roman history throws a tremendous light on the history of today, and is in itself very valuable and important in the history and civilization of the world. But who learns enough Latin to read more than a couple of great works of old so slowly and painfully that only disgust remains? And who learns Roman history in the Latin tongue anyway? And who ever reads the thousands of Christian writers of Latin during the succeeding...