Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today generally condemns books on religion not approved by Catholic authorities and books "against faith and morals," including all Communist books. Specifically condemned are some 6,000 works by 4,000 authors (among them: Addison, Balzac, Dumas, father and son, Kant, Spinoza, Voltaire), which Catholics may not read without special permission...
This week he keeps up his customary pace as he moves back and forth between New York (special Masses, dinners, receptions) and Boston (a private reunion with relatives). At 70, Spellman remains the foremost U.S. Catholic prelate and probably the busiest. As he put it 20 years ago: "I shall pray as if everything depended on God. I shall work as if everything depended...
...world," was tagged at $25,000. The Frenchman who succumbed (he insisted on anonymity) got a volume of 200 parchment pages that had required the skins of 100 sheep, plus eight watercolors that originally served as models for Dali's lithographs, plus three extra sets of lithographs on special papers. Publisher Foret is quite reconciled to having this rare volume drop out of sight for years, expects it will be seen by only a handful of sympathetic souls. As Foret explained last week, "The real bibliophile never shows his book, except to another bibliophile-a man who vibrates...
Above all this floats the music, most of which displays Handel's more fluid, graceful style--the finest example being the superb duet of Arsemene and Romilda. The singers carry out their tasks well; John Leonard and Vivian Thomas produce especially beautiful sounds. Robert Scher deserves special mention for his performance (in a voice which suggests the weight and power of an articulated locomotive) of a song about wine that begins, "This persuasive potable makes your thoughts more quotable...
...sales of such models tripled. "The College has been advertising only its most expensive model," he points out, and this spring for the first time, application forms for upperclass rooms carried this listing: "Cooperatives--$110" per term. In addition, all members of Dudley were asked to fill out a special section...