Word: sua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make swing versions of popular classics is reached in the adaptation by Larry Clinton of Debussy's "Reverie." So perfect a fusion of so-called classic and modern elements has been made in this piece that as far as the fad is concerned, here is an apologia pro sua vita. The swing version of "Reverie" is superior to the original, because Debussy's composition was not in his best vein. "Reverie" dates from 1890, the year marking the transition from the composer's immature to more mature works. That year, which produced "Clair de Lune," probably among the better works...
...ceiling frieze. He ate spaghetti in the grande Salone da pranzo at a royal banquet table seating 20. By touching a button near his bedside telephone George II could connect himself with either of the royal parlors, or the Queen's intimate and exquisite camera da letto di Sua Maesta la Regina- although last week there was no Queen aboard...
After this slight Apologia Pro Columna Sua we must turn to grander things. Tonight in Sanders Theatre the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play Strauss's. "Ein Heldenleben," a "Tondichtung," or in simplified terms "A Hero Life" a "Tone Poem." Out of deference to the artistic spirit the Vagabond will not launch into his usual scholarly criticism. He is willing, may desirous, of abiding by the composer's dictum that, "There is no need of a program. It is enough to know that a hero is fighting his enemies." That is the crux of the whole work; bear it in mind...
John Henry Cardinal Newman, onetime hope of the Anglicans, then convert to Roman Catholicism, finally acknowledged prince of his adopted church, author of the "immortal" Apologia pro vita sua, is now little more than a dusty document, even, at Oxford University where his fame was brightest. Author May, sympathetic archivist, here takes out the dossier and with reverent breath blows off some of the dust...
...Dublin, and was thwarted; was promised a bishopric, which never came; was asked to make a translation of the Bible, and the plans fell through. But when Charles Kingsley, famed author of Westward Ho!, attacked him, calling him Jesuitical, Newman's series of replies (the Apologia pro vita sua) not only demolished Kingsley but reestablished Newman's reputation as the most important religious figure in England. He wrote the Apologia in seven weeks, sometimes working for 22 hours at a stretch. Says Biographer May: "It has been proclaimed a classic?which means that it is one of those books' which...