Word: misericordia
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...protests "almost alone" against the publicizing of President Kennedy and his family. Her opinions expressed in the Nation and reported in TIME (Aug. 17) are certainly not to be taken as those of the Sisters of Mercy as a whole, nor of the administration and faculty of College Misericordia.* We especially deplore the author's accusation of the "amassing of personal power" by the President. We admire his vigorous and sometimes vehement self-dedication to the cause of justice and charity in the country of which he is chief executive. If it be true that "Mr. Kennedy has become...
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...commissions took them, and so their work became a graceful blend of French and Italian styles. Nice's Louis Brea, who founded a "dynasty" of painters, is perhaps the most famous name in the show, but no work surpasses the splendor of Jean Miralhet's Virgin of Misericordia...
Miralhet was born in Montpellier around 1394, died in Nice some 60 years later. He had studios in both Marseille and Nice, and Louis Brea is known to have worked with him. Though the Virgin of Misericordia, which hangs in the Chapel of the Black Penitents in Nice, is Miralhet's only known work, French experts still think it is evidence enough to rank him as one of the finest artists of his time. The time was one that lived in dread of the plague, and Miralhet's Virgin is shown tenderly shielding the city's population...
Several instrumental soloists distinguished themselves, among them: flutists, Sue Alder and Cynthia Crane in the "Et misericordia" and "Esurientes" sections, and Michael Senturia, who played the oboe obligato during the soprano aria, "Quia respexit." The string section as a whole produced remarkably good intonation and tone quality. It is not surprising that the chorus was not quite up to the caliber of the orchestra since the singers were all freshmen. An unfortunate case of extreme flatting occured in the course of the woman's chorus "Suscepit Israel...