Word: tu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a Gypsy. Records are expensive in France, but some of Bechet's are top sellers at about 30,000-100,000 copies each. Among his titles: As-Tu le Cafard? (Have You Got the Blues?) and Mets ton Vieux Bonnet Gris (Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet...
...thousand-odd churches, some of them converted Buddhist temples (see cut). It is divided into 18 vicariates with about 1,400 native priests and 18 bishops (eight of them Indo-Chinese). Among them are Msgr. Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop of Bui Chu and Msgr. Thaddeus Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem. Msgr. Tu is the only Roman Catholic bishop in the world (besides the Pope, with his 100-odd Swiss Guards) to maintain his own private army-two regular battalions of 1,700 men, plus a militia of 5,800. (The two bishops and thousands of their flock were...
Each fact of Davison's genius was well illustrated. Eight of his own arrangements--four folk songs and four G. and S. choruses--showed a freshness and brightness that invite but defy imitation. Canto di Caccia and Tu Mi Vuoi were particularly effective, with their alternate blending and contrasting of voice parts...
...ille servus sollers, virgarum lascivia (quem nos T. Hilarem appellamus), et cius alter, Shillius Homo (qui solus intellegit uti miser sit homo qui amat), et Norris noster nobilis (qui verba blanda pro auro et dicta docta prodatis pracbet). Nec quidem vos estis mihi practereundac, o amatrices dicaculae et sagaces, tu, M. Paludis Filum et tu, o matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin vortere nondum possum, Abigail Lewis. Et vobis quoque contingat semper pro meritis corona--et vinum...
Such was the man who moved in Rome's most select circles, who addressed the national chief of police Tommaso Pavone with the intimate "tu." Many of those who originally doubted La Caglio's story changed their minds. The Communists promptly trumpeted the fact that Scelba and Montagna had both been witnesses at the wedding of Spataro's son two years ago, pointed out that Scelba himself had appointed Pavone chief of police...