Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...16th Commonwealth Conference broke up last week in London. What broke it up, as usual, was the problem of how to make Rhodesia a British colony again...
Teresa of Avila, the 16th century saint, had poetic visions of "pure water running over crystal, the sun reflecting it and striking through it." Simone Weil, the lonely Jewish girl who turned into a Christian mystic, tells how the recitation of lines by George Herbert, such as, "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back," acted on her intuitive unconscious like prayer. "Then it hap pened," she recalled. "Christ himself came down, and he took...
True in His Fashion. Littler is nothing if not true to himself. He did his level best to lose the World Series, but it just wasn't enough. On the final day, going into the 625-yd. par-five 16th hole at the Firestone Country Club, he was leading Geiberger by two strokes, Nicklaus and Casper by four. So what did Gene do? He shanked a little pitch shot into a water hazard, took a double bogey, and dropped back into a tie with Nicklaus-who sank a nine-foot putt for a birdie. When Al Geiberger birdied...
...occasion was the 16th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, and the primary issue was Rhodesia. Last January, Britain's Harold Wilson had talked the Commonwealth's nine African nations into going along with his policy of economic sanctions as the best way to topple Ian Smith's white rebel regime and prepare the way for handing the government over to Rhodesia's repressed black majority. But the sanctions have not worked, and Wilson last week faced a different kind of rebellion...
Died. Walter Friedlaender, 93, art historian and professor at N.Y.U.'s Institute of Fine Arts, who cast new light into some dark corners of European art (Caravaggio, Poussin) and identified a 16th century transitional style of exaggerated painting that he called "mannerism," thus providing a key to the change from Renaissance to the baroque; of cancer; in Manhattan...