Word: venetian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory the delegates heard: a dozen concerts ranged in theme from music of the two Americas to Venetian and Dalmatian songs of the Renaissance. One program resurrected unpublished music by Handel, none of it performed since the composer's day. Enjoyed most by delegates and outsiders alike was a concert of medieval music at The Cloisters, Manhattan's museum-piece museum of Gothic art, where bull-necked French Tenor Yves Tinayre and a girls' choir sang motets, trouvere songs, Gregorian chants...
What happened to the Army of the Po? Fortnight ago this superbly mechanized force of eleven divisions began its maneuvers by dashing from the Venetian plains across northern Italy to resist an attack of imaginary Red invaders theoretically pouring through passes in the Alps (TIME, Aug. 14). But after repairing bridges theoretically destroyed by Red bombs, plunging 230 real miles in 60 hours, the Army of the Po unexpectedly halted, went home two days ahead of schedule. Explanations...
...Santa Barbara. A choir of monks chanted age-old antiphons; 10,000 palms were strewn on the church steps; El Caudillo walked into the church under a white silk canopy held up by six priests. Before the high altar on which was placed a crucifix commemorating the great Hispano-Venetian naval victory at Lepanto in the 16th Century, the General surrendered his sword to Isidoro Cardinal Goma y Tomás, Catholic Primate of Spain, gave thanks for his victory "over the enemies of truth...
...Venetian blind flap, built like a wooden window shade, which gives more lift for slow take-offs and landings than any flap now flying, means that speeds can be made higher without worrying about how fast a high-speed ship will land, how much run it will need to take...
...subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing problem of classic art." To do the subject justice an exhibition would have to include several items not visible at Knoedler's. Among them: 1) a nude by Giorgione, Titian's great Venetian contemporary; 2) an example of the mighty figure painting of Michelangelo; 3) one of Rubens' rubicund exaltations of Flemish flesh; 4) more significant examples of choice modern work, both in the old tradition...