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...voice brought silence. Figures flashed on a screen. From loudspeakers blared the names of successful candidates for the National Assembly. Soon an unfamiliar sound began to take on a rhythm of familiarity. "Department of Finistère," said a voice, "Monsieur Demarquet, Ood-ka. Department of Seine-et-Oise, Monsieur Couturaud...
...down in the chronicle of the San Domenico convent at Fiesole are the simple facts about Fra Angelico: in 1407 "Fr. Joannes Petri de Mugello iuxta Vichium, optimus pictor, qui multas tabulas et parietes in diversis locis pinxit, accepit habitum clericorum in hoc conventu . . . et in sequenti anno fecit professionem."* To this, Vasari adds only that Fra Giovanni's name was Guido, that he was born in 1387, and entered the Dominican monastery "chiefly for the sake of his soul and for his peace of mind...
...also a large quota of safe and popular items-currently a new Madama Butterfly (the seventh on LP) ^and Oistrakh playing Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. On the chic side, there are exquisite performances of the most sensuous musings of Debussy (Trois Nocturnes, La Mer) and Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe, L'Heure Espagnole}. There are also imposing works of Stravinsky and Bartok...
...program also included Puccini's Gloria Mass, a work written in the composer's student days. The music was decidedly uneven, containing fine lyrical passages such as a strong theme for unison chcorus at the words "et unam sanctam." Much of the music, however, sounded like an Italian version of second-rate Schubert. It was the piece's first and probably last Boston performance...
...down by Assistant Attorney General Harris J. Booras on the grounds that "there is not the remotest evidence that Harvard has reached its decision in any manner other than honesty, faithfully, and for what it considers to be the best interests of the Arboretum." Then, in the case Ames et al v. Attorney General, filed in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the petitioners sought a writ of mandamus to force the Attorney General to use his name in a test suit. On February 11, 1955, the court ruled that it lacked jurisdiction to force the Attorney General...