Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Makings of a Saint. The plot is routine -a middle-aged doctor and his young son each fall in love with the same kept woman-but Mauriac fashions a somber and moving story of frustrated love. The father, Dr. Courregès, has had a drab life, and he idealizes Maria Cross, the mistress of a wine merchant, imagines her as wronged by the whole world. Son Raymond does no idealizing; in his grubby way he just wants to go to bed with...
Died. Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt ("Mother Bloor"), 88, patron saint of the U.S. Communist Party; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Richlandtown, Pa. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...first Tanglewood trip leaves by bus from Thayer Gate at 3 p.m. tomorrow. The Saturday evening concert, with Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will include Handel's Water Music Suite, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 3, and Bartok's Music for Strings and Percussion...
...himself. Every hamlet has a statue, or at least a bust, of El Benefactor, every public building an inscription proclaiming his beneficence. "Only Trujillo cures you," says the inscription on a hospital. Hundreds of towns, streets, buildings have been renamed after Trujillo, his father, his mother, and his patron saint, Rafael. In an unequalled burst of impudence, he renamed the oldest city in the New World (founded by Bartholomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher, in 1496): Ciudad Santo Domingo became Ciudad Trujillo...
...Though once the Swiss Guard was the elite of the papal armies. Their greatest historic moment came in. 1527, when they were almost annihilated on the steps of Saint Peter's by the army of Charles, Duke of Bourbon-but their delaying action probably saved the life of Pope Clement VII. Recent Popes have not needed such protection. In July, 1914, while Pope Pius X was still hoping that Europe's differences could be settled without war, the Guard commander proposed mounting a gun on St. Peter's roof. Said Pius: "Shooting might frighten the Holy Ghost...