Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BILL of religious operas may not be your idea of entertainment, but this year's Leverett House Opera Society offering is one of the best productions, musically and theatrically, in the last few years at Harvard. The two plays were written 800 years apart. The Play of Daniel in 12th century France, Benjamin Britten's Curlew River several years ago in England. They make a fascinating pair, for both are parables for church performance, and both employ stylized musical and theatrical means to illustrate the parable with force...
Enmity between Cambodians and Vietnamese dates from well before the 12th century, when the fabled temples at Angkor were completed. Some of the carvings there depict battles between the Khmers of ancient Cambodia and the Annamese, forebears of present-day Vietnamese. In modern Cambodia, the Vietnamese and Chinese minorities dominate commerce and light industry, giving them economic clout that the majority of Cambodians sharply resent...
Last year Harvard won the Haines Cup race for the 12th consecutive year by downing Navy by nearly fourteen seconds...
...Harvard's devastating lightweight navy swept its 12th consecutive regatta and its sixth straight Biglin Bowl race with an easy four-length victory over M. I. T. and Dartmouth Saturday afternoon on the Charles...
...early as the 12th century, Hebrew scholars began to question whether the entire Book of Isaiah was written by the same author. Liberal Scripture scholars have long agreed that there are at least two distinct collections in Isaiah, one comprising the first 39 chapters, the other the remaining 27. Now modern technology has ratified that thesis...