Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe: he admits to skepticism and has left the Roman Catholic Church. This contradiction has turned up in Menotti operas before (e.g., The Medium), in the shape of dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason. The theme is rousingly treated in Menotti's new opera, The Saint of Bleecker Street, which last week opened on Broadway to rave reviews. It is Menotti's most ambitious opera to date, and perhaps his best...
...have a word for emigres who, once poverty-stricken, return to visit their native land flush with the prosperity of half a lifetime in the U.S. They call them heelobowie, a rough approximation of "hello boy." In many a Greek village, the returning heelobowie ranks almost as a patron saint; each village strives to outdo its neighbors in providing a lavish welcome for him, and even after his return to the land of his adoption, legends of his largesse live on among the villagers...
...Waterfront. The year's best melodrama: Elia Kazan's tale of life and death among the longshoremen of New York Harbor; with Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Maiden (TIME...
...Tongues. There were no grounds during the war for supposing that Alice's relations with her 14-year-old protégé were more than those of a dedicated teacher and a pupil in whom she recognized the spark of genius. But smalltown tongues wag easily, and Saint-Maur's gossips, titillated by frequent glimpses of Alice and Raymond strolling in deep communion by the river's edge, let their speculation run free. When Alice's poilu husband Gaston came back from the war a hero, the cheers that greeted him were mingled with many...
...SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON is among the most perfectly preserved panels by RAPHAEL. It was a gift to Henry VII of England, commissioned by Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who had received the Order of the Garter from Henry. In the picture, St. George is clearly shown wearing the Garter. (The Mellon Collection...