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- From: jww@evolving.com (John W. Woolley)
- Subject: Looking for a word
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.161612.51087@evolving.com>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:16:12 GMT
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- Is there a word in English for the two masks (representing tragedy and
- comedy) hung on either side of the proscaenium? Thank you.
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- Fr. John Woolley (jww@evolving.com); vastly enthusiastic about Augustine,
- Austen, babies, Bach, backgammon, baseball, beer, the Bible, Botticelli, Burke,
- Chesterton, Dante, Dixieland, hardboiled, Hitchcock, Dr Johnson, Latin, Mozart,
- Shakespeare/de Vere, St Teresa, Tolkien, Trollope, Fats Waller, and Washington
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