Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the first concert scheduled on November 14 in Sanders Theatre, the Commonwealth Symphony Orchestra will include in its program Minuets of Beethoven, and selections by Hayden, and Saint Saens. Ernst Hoffmann will direct the first concert and the one following on November...
...Quite different from Ras Desta Demtu was Haile Selassie's other son-in-law, bug-eyed little Haile Selassie Gugsa. Ruler of the eastern part of Tigre Province, he is a direct descendant of that King John of Ethiopia still venerated as a saint by the Coptic Church. His great-uncle, John IV, was a sworn enemy of fierce-whiskered old Emperor Menelik who later defeated the Italians at Aduwa. Ras Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian...
Last week's jury of award, with the exception of Carnegie Director Homer Saint Gaudens, consisted entirely of painters: Alexander Brook. John Steuart Curry and Jonas Lie of the U. S.; Colin Gill of London; Henrik Lund of Norway; and Belgium's Isadore Opsomer. Pressed for reasons for choosing the Caviedes picture out of the 364 others exhibited, most jurymen thought that its shrewd color scheme was the deciding factor...
...YANKEE SAINT-Robert Allerton Parker-Putnam...
Last week Robert Allerton Parker recounted the complex history of the Oneida Community in a biography of its founder, John Humphrey Noyes, shrewd, enlightened fanatic who expounded his theories of free love with passionate moral fervor. Carefully documented, A Yankee Saint is a mine of information on a significant development in U. S. history, succeeds in giving a comprehensive account of the ways of the Community without exploiting its absurd or sensational aspects. The Oneida Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently...