Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." Argued St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theological: A second marriage is "a somewhat defective sacrament, because it has not its full signification, since there is not a union of only one woman with only one man as in the marriage of Christ with the Church. And on account of this defect the blessing is [usually] omitted...
Some of the best-known contemporary U.S. composers-Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Marc Blitzstein, Virgil Thomson-are tied to a woman's apron strings. The woman: their sometime teacher, Nadia Boulanger, for years head of the American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra (as a guest in 1938), and the world's most renowned teacher of composition...
...ever at 70, Nadia Boulanger has nevertheless decided to retire from her conservatory post, will continue teaching privately in her big, crowded Paris apartment. Says an admirer: "She still knows more about music than all the great composers and performers." What precisely is it that she knows? The woman who gave up her own early attempts at composition as "useless music" has not tried to shape a special musical style, stands first of all for intellect and discipline. In an age given to sprawling, undisciplined "self-expression," this has been a much needed corrective. Critics of Teacher Boulanger nonetheless wonder...
...from matrimony was actually his last chance of happiness. Author O'Connor's stories are best read individually, for taken together they show a certain sameness of ideas, treatment, even phrasing. At his worst, O'Connor slips into the bathetic romanticism of the late Donn (The Woman of the Shee) Byrne; at his best, he writes like a James Joyce who has kissed the Blarney stone...
Lady Luck. In Oklahoma City, Policeman R. W. Starr gallantly assisted a woman who was having trouble with a parking meter, banged it hard a couple of times, gave her a summons when a slug appeared behind the glass...