Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lack of adequate coaching. Take the case of Don Stephenson. Stephenson, a Holderness graduate, is rated among the best in the East. At Holderness, he consistently beat team-mate Dick Taylor. This year, Taylor finished second for Dartmouth in cross country in the Middlebury Carnival; Stephenson came in 12th...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Films, live drama and choral music will tell the story of the Medieval Knight, his life and trials in the 12th century...
...legendary founder is Bodhi-Dharma, "the blue-eyed monk," who came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...
...visitors to France, what lingers longest is the richness of its Romanesque architecture, the combination of religiosity and dedicated workmanship that lives in Chartres, at Mont St.-Michel, in Vezelay. These 271 photographs are rich evidence of the legacy left by the great architects and sculptors of 11th and 12th century France, the marriage of mass and grace, of glory to God and man's determination to create for posterity...
...rout of the Mamelukes at the Pyramids is closely followed by the annihilation of the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, and Napoleon and his army of 25,000 settle down for their strange three-year sojourn in Egypt. The impact of the French Age of Enlightenment on the 12th century mentality of the fellahin gives Author McKenney some of her best pages...