Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lazarillo. Based on a 1554 Spanish novel, Lazarillo is a sort of 16th century Huckleberry Finn which details the misadventures of its young hero as he pits wits and wiles against a world of unscrupulous adults...
After a state dinner that Jackie attended, the Luxembourgeois got a taste of Kennedy culture - 16th and 17th century songs performed on authentic Shakespearean instruments, and a reading of the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V by Basil Rathbone. Said Rathbone later: "The President likes it and knows it by heart-which scared the daylights out of me." With the royal visit nearly over, Prince Jean was notified that his wife, Princess Josephine Charlotte, had just given birth to their fifth child. At the official leavetaking, the President could not resist whispering of the birth...
King launched the most massive integration drive yet in Birmingham. Using school kids-most of them teenagers, but some no more than six years old-the Negro minister sent wave after wave of sign carriers from the 16th Street Baptist Church to march on downtown Birmingham. On the first day, the demonstrations were a bit like a picnic. The youngsters clapped and sang excitedly, and when Connor's men arrested them, they scampered almost merrily into patrol wagons. About 800 youthful Negroes wound up in Birmingham jails that...
...member Soviet diplomatic entourage to the U.S. is presently packed like caviar into a tin-can embassy-chancery on 16th Street in Washington. The Russians want out-and they propose to move to a 15-acre estate called Bonnie Brae in Chevy Chase, a residential area on the Maryland-District of Columbia line...
...book has now been made into a charming film, written and directed by Spain's Cesar Ardavin, that makes a pretty point: the only difference between boys in the 16th century and boys in the 20th century is that they are bothered by a different set of adults...