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Rex Harrison, 82, Dies; Star of `My Fair Lady'
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Rex Harrison, 82, the actor best known for his wonderful
portrayal of Henry Higgins, the irascible and impatient professor of
language who won hearts when he fell for a Cockney flower girl in "My
Fair Lady," died of cancer yesterday at his apartment in New York
City.
In a career that spanned 65 years, Mr. Harrison became one of the
great masters of English drawing-room comedy. Noel Coward, who wrote
some of his favorite plays, once described him as "the best light
comedy actor in the world-except for me." Although he avoided
Shakespeare, Mr. Harrison was highly praised for his work in a ...
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Numerical and geometric patterning in Caedmon's Hymn.(Essays)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ
; ...compositions. Thus, for example, Walafrid Strabo shows a strong predilection for...76, Dummler 2: 413-14). As Walafrid explains (lines 83-84), this...the contents of the poem. Had Walafrid not noted this fact, modern readers...
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How they took a cure 800 years ago.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...rue and betony. '' One of the texts studied by historian Dr Tony Hunt was a 9th century Latin poem by German poet Walafrid Strabo called Hortalus or LittleGarden. It contains a detailed descrip- ti on of a monastery garden, and inf ormation...
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The Cistercians and the glossa ordinaria
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...of the writings of Jerome (or pseudoJerome), Augustine, Bede, Isidore of Seville, the ninth-century exegete Walafrid Strabo, and various eleventh-century commentators, quickly took on a fairly predictable form, and became what we know...
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Historical fact and exegetical fiction in the Carolingian Vita S. Sualonis (1).
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...the inner circle of the East Frankish ruler Louis the German's court at Regensberg, and stayed briefly at both Walafrid Strabo's Reichenau and at the celebrated St. Gall. In addition to the Vita of Sualo, Ermenrich also penned a Life of...
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The Bishop's New Clothes
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...priest's liturgical attire is not clear, for both Bishop Theodulph of Orleans (d. 821) and religious scholar Walafrid Strabo (d. 849) seem to ignore it under circumstances in which we should have expected it to be mentioned. STOLE and...
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Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry, 750-1150.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...page article on 'the socio-religious context of medieval monastic views towards nocturnal emission' (p. 83) in Walafrid Strabo's To Erluin, especially since the author admits that this poem 'fails to meet the test of being a beast poem...
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The transmission of Boethius' de consolatione Philosophiae in the Carolingian age.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...Scotus. Nonetheless, in addition to these, one may quote Theodulf and Jonas of Orleans, Modoinus of Auxerre, Walafrid Strabo, Lupus of Ferritres, Remigius of Auxerre, and many others who are not in the least of insular descent. Moreover...
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