Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good enough for the President of Italy, it should be good enough for a U.S. high school." Bristling with indignation, Sculptor Fazzini pointed out that he had done the altar columns for the new American College in Rome, had made a 10-ft statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, America's first saint, for Rome's Church of Saint Eugenius. "Where's Bristol?" Fazzini angrily demanded. "To know who I am all you have to do is open any art publication or see who won the first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol...
Portugal, however, felt passionately different about its numerous picturesque fragments on India's west coast. Goa, chief among them, is the symbol of a golden age of Portuguese conquest four centuries ago and important to Catholic Portuguese as the final resting place of St. Francis Xavier. Goa is also economi cally profitable: last year the port exported more than $11 million worth of manganese and iron ore. In Lisbon, Nehru's designs on Goa were greeted by obstinate fury. Lisbon's Diario de Noticias angrily denounced Nehru as a misguided forerunner of Communism. "The spectacular show staged...
Spanish-born Xavier Gonzalez is one painter who frankly admits that he takes his ideas where he finds them. "I am a blotter," says he. "I have no scruples about stealing wherever I can and adapting what I have taken to my own expression." As a result, Gonzalez has gone in for about every kind of artistic approach that has been invented: impressionism, expressionism, abstractionism, realism, surrealism. Last week at Cleveland's Western Reserve University, where he is now teaching, Gonzalez proved his versatility with an exhibition of the best of his work of the last ten years...
TROY, N.Y., Jan.2--They call hockey Canada's national sport and the Canadians certainly showed why this week. A smooth-skating Saint Francis Xavier sextet from the wilds of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, blasted three of the East's top-rated hockey teams to win Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's third annual invitation tournament...
Died. The Rev. Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J., 64, longtime (1936-44) editor of the Jesuit weekly America (circ. 33,000), onetime president of Baltimore's Loyola College (1947-51) and chaplain-counselor of the Legion of Decency's movie-review committee; of pneumonia; in Washington...