Word: padua
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...difficult task of unifying an exhibit which includes artists of very different periods, outlooks and media. Ranging from European to American artists, Renaissance to modern works, the show includes such notable pieces as a 15th-century German Printed book with woodcut illustrations. Canaletto's Imaginary View of Padua and Joseph Stella's Study for the Brooklyn Bridge...
Admirably, the star-studded version that opened in New York City's Central Park last week solves the problem in a subtler way: by transposing the action to the Wild West of frontier days. The "Padua" of swinging-door saloons and semicorrupt sheriffs is recognizably not of our era, yet equally recognizably a precursor to it; thus the outrageous sexual politics onstage is not ours, but pertinent to it. Director A.J. Antoon has taken considerable liberties (one character is called Joe Bob), and he uses the setting as much for slapstick buffoonery as for literary insight. But the show...
Sandburg got the idea for this project while he was in Italy on a Rotary Fellowship from 1980 to 1982, living simultaneously in the city of Padua and on a farm in a small, nearby village in the Alps. Commuting between the two, Sandburg noticed radical cultural and lifestyle differences between the highlands and the lowlands...
...Saltonstalls' 11 consecutive generations of Harvard graduates began on a certain summer day in 1642, when Richard Saltonstall's son, Henry, toted the first-ever Harvard degree back to the family farm. He would later go to Padua for a medical degree, the first Harvard graduate to become a doctor...
FOOTNOTE: *The six: Baroncini of Solarolo, Ravenna; Biscardo of Calmasino, Verona; Cauda of Cuneo, Piedmont; Mascarello of La Morra, Piedmont; Ricordi of Piave, Treviso; Tombacco of Trebaseleghe, Padua...