Word: virginal
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...lass who scorns the bumptious town boys and chooses by default the widowed, middle-aged teacher. Shaughnessy warns her: "I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows meself." They marry anyway, and her wedding night is your standard virgin v. tired stag disappointment. Neither the audience nor Father Collins can mistake the meaning of her persistent frustrated sighs...
...women to take a prophetic role now and then. His reminder that "there is neither male nor female . . . in Christ" also helped to raise women from the level of chattel to partner. The early church had a specific office of deaconess. By the Middle Ages, when veneration of the Virgin Mary almost put her on the level of a goddess, religious orders had produced powerful abbesses who held their own in intellectual exchanges with men, as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pointedly witnesses. Indeed, St. Catherine of Siena earned her major fame by talking the Avignon pope into moving...
...surrounded his prima diva with an all-star cast headed by Mezzo Beverly Wolff, Baritone Louis Quilico and, of course, Domingo. Amply returning the favor, Sills proved again that she is unsurpassed as a coloratura. With gestures ranging from near-hysteric twitching to imperious slaps, she brought the Virgin Queen's tragedy to dramatic life. More important, she turned Donizetti's ornate vocal scrolls into ear-ravishing laments of the utmost sadness...
...plebeian beer has long since acquired its own stout band of connoisseurs. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the fine points of enjoying America's own proud indigenous beverage-ubiquitous, multi-flavored, effervescent soda pop. To remedy that omission, California Novelist Earl Shorris (Boots of the Virgin) has set down some obiter dicta in San Francisco's Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. Tongue firmly in cheek, he sounds a clarion call to those who prefer pop to other drinks but feel that it is socially unacceptable. "Drink what you like," he advises. "Don't be discouraged from...
...Gilbert Stuart's Martha and George Washington have few equals (not to mention Boston's John Singer Sargent canvasses). If Van Der Weyden's Christ Appearing to His Mother makes the viewer sigh, he should take a look at home- Van Der Weyden's Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, in Boston's permanent collection...