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...long before his wife "did find me embracing the girl con my hand sub su coats." In that babel of cryptic foreign words, inscribed in an equally cryptic shorthand, Pepys confided to his diary all the earthiest details of his rakish life in London in the 1660s. There was plenty to confide. Mrs. Pepys made him dismiss the girl. Pepys gave his servant a lofty talk, warning her to "have a care for her honour and to fear God." He then paid her 20 shillings to tell him her next address. Pepys not only regularly deceived his wife but beat...
...paintings and drawings of Ruisdael at the Fogg help us place him into perspective among Dutch masters of the 17th century, but the repercussions of his genius go far beyond Haarlem. Amsterdam or Egmond of the 1660s or '70s. The Ruisdeal exhibition proves that the Fogg continues to champion the first-two-definitions of "mu-se-um," and--especially with plans for the addition alive again--the third: "something that resembles a museum...
...illustrious personages, like all new boys, were on call to serve tea, run errands, and polish boots of top seniors. Eton was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but fagging did not begin until the 17th century. The young servants are called fags, their service fagging, because in the 1660s "to fag" meant to toil...
...similar vein, Alan E. Heimert '49, Cabot Professor of American Literature and a student of Miller's, has discussed the "declension" of Massachusetts Bay Puritanism in terms of its shift in emphasis from spiritual well-being to material prosperity--a shift reflected by the jeremiads, sermons of the 1660s that preach virtue as a means of averting crop failure...
...early 1660s Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn, bleary-eyed and improvident, set up his easel to paint Hendrickje Stoffels as Juno, swathing her in paste jewels and the rich worn old velvets he loved so well. As patrons of the current cinema Rembrandt will recall (TIME, Dec. 14), Hendrickje was his housekeeper and mistress. Rembrandt died a pauper, was forgotten for generations, was rediscovered and has now become among the highest priced and most frequently forged of all Old Masters. Last week it was made known that another Rembrandt, just discovered, had reached the U. S. Art critics put aside...