Word: sacra
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...murals at the Brazilian Pavilion in the 1939 New York World's Fair and in the Library of Congress, and one-man shows in Detroit and Manhattan gave him a U.S. reputation. But things have not always gone well with him at home. He painted the Via Sacra on the walls of a modern church near Belo Horizonte, which Architect Oscar Niemeyer, friend and fellow Communist, designed. The archbishop refused to consecrate the church (TIME, May 13, 1946). Says Portinari: "The priests don't like my way of expressing, sacred things. They want Virgins that look like Ingrid...
...Romans interpret those letters according to their sympathies-Sacra Citta Vaticano (Holy Vatican City): Stato Civile Vaticano (Vatican Civil State) ; or Se Cristo Vedesse (If Christ...
...warmly greeted within by his old and loyal followers of years past. They bade him sup with them in their large and paneled dining room. All unwitting he accepted. Hardly had the little group sat down before one of the young medics began mouthing pendantically about his sacra lillac joint. In his usual gallant way the Vag abond played the game. "I find that front bites better with a Dowaglac." O God, O Montreal what had he done? Laughter, like summer thunder beneath distant horizons, shook the clapboards. Sacro-illiac was a part of anatomy. From that opening salvo...
...Rand, for assistance on Volume H of "A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours", on a book on Virgil's influence on later literature, on an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, on a volume to succeed "Founders of the Middle Ages", and on an edition of the Opuscula Sacra of Boethius...
...Works of Virgil" and he will supplement his talks by readings from translations of Virgil's poetry. He has been a professor at the University since 1909, and has been the author of numerous articles on classical and medieval subjects and is the editor and translator of Boethius' "Opuscula Sacra", and "Consolatis "Philosophicae...