Word: 1600s
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Born in another age or in another country, Jacob Jordaens might have been considered a great painter. But the Low Countries in the 1600s, in spite of wars with Spain and brutal religious repression, saw the flowering of one incomparable painter after another-Vermeer and Rembrandt in Holland, Rubens and Van Dyck in Flanders. As a result, Jordaens passed into history as something of an also-ran. Now, thanks to a splendrous 315-work display of paintings, tapestries, drawings and prints at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Jordaens is finally getting the kind of full-beam spotlight necessary...
...HILDA SHRIVER New York City > TIME'S reporter understood Mrs. Shriver, the justifiably proud mother of Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., to say: "We're nicer than the Kennedys. We've been here since the 1600s. We're rooted in the land in Maryland. The Kennedys like to be around people who are in the news. They are flamboyant...
...five Iroquoian tribes (either a Mohawk or an Onondagan). A cannibal like all Iroquois at that time, he became a mystic and prophet who united the five tribes into a single confederation. Then there was the Wampanoags' King Philip, who fought the Puritan colonists in the 1600s while his warriors defected or died around him, and who himself was killed defending his lands. The obscure Pueblo medicine man Popé led an uprising against the Spanish (and the church) in the Southwest in 1680, reconquered the New Mexico territory and held it for twelve years. The savage Ottawa chief...
Passion Play Sir: Hang TIME ! Most obviously you forgot that the people of Oberammergau are devotedly fulfilling a promise to God that their ancestors made centuries back. In the 1600s, when the Black Plague was sweeping the country, killing thousands, the people of this village turned to their only help-they dropped to their knees and promised God that if the plague was spared them, they would present the drama of the Christ's Passion every ten years. This is what they are doing. They aren't striving for the perfection of Hollywood with all its top stars...