Word: deis
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...imported scholarly monks and artisans from Italy, Spain, Ireland and England to convert Aachen into St. Augustine's Civitas Dei, the divine city, in the barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...
...Masses, those great, sturdy monuments of faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass...
...place where a you-who might help, it is missing. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis has been translated as "Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us." Better grammar might have been to change "take" to "takes." Many Catholic missals say "takest," but the makers of this Mass tried to avoid thee-thy-thou forms. Nevertheless they slipped up: the Lord's Prayer still goes, "Thy kingdom come." Other parts have a ring of transliteration, rather than translation, from Latin. "Priests who translate the Mass have a tendency...
...they finally roost in a bank for collection. If the bank-which makes its profit on cambiali by discounting them by 2% to 12%-has trouble collecting from the original signer, it applies a dreaded remedy. Unless the delinquent pays up, the bank publishes his name in the Bollettino dei Protesti, a kind of debtors' Who's Who, and also begins court proceedings to recover the loss...
...even more jealously guarded national treasure is Franz Josef's family art collection (TIME, Dec. 12, 1960), which consists of 1,500 paintings valued at $150 million. It includes the only Leonardo da Vinci in private ownership, a lush portrait of a Florentine maiden called the Ginevra dei Benci, as well as 27 Rubens paintings that are valued at $11 million, and paintings by Van Dyck, Brueghel, Rembrandt and Botticelli. The public is allowed to see only 75 of Franz Josef's lesser pictures, which are sandwiched into a modest building in Vaduz along with the tourist office...