Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEASONS. Actor Paul Scofield's mesmerizing performance as 16th century Martyr Sir Thomas More and Playwright Robert Bolt's superb adaptation of his eloquent play add up to one of the most intelligent religious films ever made...
RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A novel about 16th century Hungary that belongs to the Mary Renault-Zoe Oldenbourg school of authentic, realistic historical fiction...
...INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim. RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
...Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs...
Forks for Dandies. In 16th and 17th century England, lucky lordlings dined with Apostle spoons given to them as baptismal gifts. Forks were a dandy's innovation from Italy, and young men returning from the Grand Tour in Shakespeare's day with tined implements in their pockets were thought effeminate by their deft-fingered fathers. When spoons did become common tableware, they had elongated bowls, less suitable for chopping food than balancing tiny reservoirs of soup. Still, as talismans of gentle birth, Apostle spoons were an exquisite beginning to a surfeit of flatware, which, by 1911, yielded services...