Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kirkland, Eliot, and Leverett won yesterday as the tackle football season began in house athletics. In touch football. Quincy crushed highly-rated Winthrop, 40-12. for its fourth consecutive victory and its 12th straight win over two seasons...
...market, making it impossible to assess their true value. Besides paintings (such masterpieces as El Greco's St. Jerome as Cardinal and Rembrandt's The Painter, Gérard de Lairesse) and drawings, the collection includes bronzes, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and furniture from the 12th to the 20th century. Said Museum Director Thomas Hoving to the 400 guests at the lavish party in honor of the Met's benefactors: "The sad thing is that Robert Lehman himself is not here to announce the news of this extraordinarily munificent gift...
Darkened Zeal. Executed between the 6th and 12th centuries, the frescoes reveal an impressive command of technique-particularly for a place so remote. The style of the Nubian monks who painted them seems to have evolved from the naive manner of Egypt's Copts into more severe stylization. An unidentified deacon with basilisk eyes and a mandarin mustache shows the ability of the Nobatian artist to transform a standard Coptic portrait with a sparsity of line more Byzantine than that of the Byzantines...
...first time in two decades, out side producers have been making their mark on the Festspielhaus, the Wagner family's private preserve in the 12th century town of Bayreuth. Richard Wag ner originally built the opera house in 1876 as a setting in which his music dramas would continue to be produced ex actly as he originally directed. Through the years, the composer's family followed his wishes, using the house for productions of Wagnerian operas that adhered slavishly - and sometimes stodgily - to the Master's wishes. After World War II, Grandsons Wolfgang and Wieland broke with...
...LION IN WINTER re-creates the frosty family politics of Henry H's 12th century England in Hampton, N.H., Aug. 11-16; Cooperstown, N.Y., Aug. 19-31; Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 25-30; and Orleans, Mass...