Word: floodlit
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...celebrations and ceremonies were scheduled to last for 3½ days. Crowds thronged the floodlit Coliseum to hear famed Jesuit Preacher Father Riccardo Lombardi (TIME, March 1, 1948) speak from the stones upon which Christian martyrs once died. At the Vatican the Pope held a semipublic consistory of some 500 bishops and 35 cardinals. Behind a picture of the Virgin, painted, according to tradition, by St. Luke, the church planned one of the biggest nighttime processions Rome had ever seen...
...Paganini players were only part of his cast. Last week thousands of Ravinia fans, sitting on blankets on the dimly floodlit grass, listened to Soprano Lotte Lehmann, whose lieder voice, beamed Knight, "is as near to chamber music as you can get-intimate, romantic." And they heard Chilean Pianist Claudio Arrau playing Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as a soloist and in ensemble with the Paganini...