Word: 16th
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Died. Alfred Whitney Griswold, 56, 16th president of Yale University, witty critic and wise champion of U.S. liberal arts education; of cancer; in New Haven (see EDUCATION...
...HAVEN, Conn, April 19--Yale University was shocked this afternoon by the sudden death of A. Whitney Griswold, its 16th president. Griswold, who has been president since 1950, died of cancer in his home. He was 56 years...
...also an empire that fell swiftly apart. By the 16th century, the Arab states, one by one, fell to the Ottomans and passed into the long sleep of Turkish domination. Then, in World War I, Arab nationalists rebelled against their Turkish overlords and fought beside the British armies in the Middle East, confident that they would obtain unity and freedom. Moviegoers who have seen Lawrence of Arabia know the gloomy result: under League of Nation mandates, most of the Middle East was handed over to Britain and France, and frustrated Arabs wasted themselves in futile rebellions against the colonial powers...
...much affection as if it were the only one he possessed. Smiling genially behind his glasses, Wildenstein will suddenly get up from his chair, grab a visitor by the arm and begin steering him around the room. "Look at this," he will say, pointing to an illumination by the 16th century Italian artist Giorgio-Giulio Clovio. "It's a beauty. When one looks at a beautiful painting, il faut jouir, one should be enraptured...
...miniatures do not come from any one period: though the art form flourished from the 12th to the 16th centuries, he owns some that date as late as the 18th century. "I simply buy the most beautiful things I can find," he says. The miniatures come from medieval books of songs, proverbs and prayers, or from the great Books of Hours. Though most portray religious subjects, there are scenes from the history of Troy and the works of Aristotle, even a scene showing Caesar receiving a German ambassador. Since the miniatures were never exposed to light as much as ordinary...