Word: tas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counterbalance, Delacroix went back to Rubens' tumultuous, baroque style. A cold, diffident man in private life, he drew his inspiration from music, or from the grand gestures of English Actor Edmund Kean's playing of Shakespearean tragedies or the literary works (Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, Byron and Tas-so), noting in his journal, "Remember eternally certain passages from Byron to inflame your imagination...
This winter, in programming Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations and last sona tas, the pianist from Long Branch dug into some of the deepest works in the repertory. But U.S. audiences may have to wait until next season to hear him in anything except records (London). Meanwhile, he is considering tours of Australia, Egypt and Turkey...
...think the time has come," he said, "to fill the sad vacancies in the Sacred College. Quid vobis videtur [What do you think]?" the cardinals doffed their biret-tas and nodded in assent...