Word: romane
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...Hudson still seems inexplicable: a funeral home director and an employee surprised and killed in the middle of a workday by a gunman who disappeared without taking money or valuables. This week Hudson's shock deepened further when a judge ruled that the murders were committed by a local Roman Catholic priest who served the town and spoke at the funeral of one of the dead...
...where one myopic offering in your menagerie might focus on those didgeridoos, the Core of tomorrow might undertake a cross-study of flutes in their many incarnations, from the pan-flutes of the Roman and Greek empires to the lesser-known (but no less important) Papuan and Khoisan flutists—perhaps even Bach’s flute sonatas would make a brief appearance. All in the name of a general education...
...with this in mind that I surveyed the Roman Catholic Church I attended in Brooklyn during a few weeks in July and August. The church itself is a rather typical example of nineteenth century urban Catholic Church architecture—to my city-bred eyes it was beautiful, functional, and familiar. The church’s name, St. Mary Star of the Sea, is so bland as to give it the feeling of an “every church.” While located in Brooklyn it could just as easily be in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, or Chicago. The wood...
...destination: Italy, the (for him) half-mythical land beyond the mountains, a world of Roman grandeur and Renaissance aestheticism...
Sure, he may be borrowing liberally from past greats in the process of finding his own style, but some of Goethe’s “Roman Elegies” might as well have been written by Virgil...