Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thirty-seven antipopes* are listed, the first of whom-Hippolytus of the 3rd Century-is still considered a saint. From four legitimate pontiffs the designation' of sainthood was removed...
...James Stewart's performance and Frank Capra's direction. Stewart, as a fine, self-sacrificing, humanity-loving, small-town American, somehow manages to seem human. Although a list of his good deeds and worthy aims would put Skeezix to shame, you almost never get that sadistic hope which a saint-like character usually brings on, that overwhelming wish to see him kick an old woman down a flight of stairs or short-change a small boy. Instead, you like him as much as you like the worst heel Bogart ever played, and you're right with...
...from natural causes; she killed herself, with potassium cyanide. Says Editor Cater: "From this calamity Henry Adams was never to recover. . . . He was, in spite of his reserved self-possession, an emotional man. . . . [Thereafter] he never mentioned Marian's name, except on extremely rare occasions." Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens was asked to design, a memorial for her grave.* Adams tried to lose himself in the writing of his monumental History of the United States during the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison, and in a series of jaunts to the most outlandish parts of the world he could find...
...famous bronze in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, generally called Grief. Adams was buried next to his wife, at the foot of the statue. Characteristically, he was much annoyed when people asked what Saint-Gaudens' seated, hooded figure symbolized. "Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption - Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap or Macy's Men's Suits Made to Measure. [It is] meant to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered...
...Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra; Schubert's Symphony No. 8 [Unfinished] in B Minor; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Arturo Toscanini conducting Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite; a medley of Sigmund Romberg show tunes; Vladimir Horowitz playing piano pieces by Saint-Saëns, Czerny and Tchaikovsky; and an album called Two Sisters from Boston, in which the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior sings Hollywoodian "arias...