Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1920s by Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead long before Madison Avenue took it over. Another early ness-builder was Mr. Justice Holmes, who defended his decisions by saying: "I do accept a rough equation between isness and oughtness." Teacher Foote has spotted the malpractice as far back as a rare 16th century book that describes Fingal's Cave in the Hebrides as having cavern-nesse. So perhaps, as George Eliot put it, "Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...
...time Palmer reached the 16th hole at Augusta last week, his cause finally seemed hopeless: he needed two birdies merely to stay alive for a three-way play-off with Player and Finsterwald. Then, at the 16th green, Palmer got his miracle: he pitched a 50-yd. chip into the cup for a birdie. Keyed up now, he stepped up to a null putt on the 17th -and banged it straight into the hole for his second straight birdie. On the 18th green, both Player and Palmer played cautiously for pars, solemnly shook hands and-the tension broken-began...
...Aqueducts. Last year she and Ponti acquired a chalet in Bürgenstock overlooking Lake Lucerne, partly to establish themselves as residents of Switzerland in order to sidestep Italy's haphazard tax code. They keep an immense apartment in Rome. They have also bought and are refashioning a 16th century villa eleven miles southeast of the city. It is on 18 acres and has 50 rooms. Before they are through, it will cost them $2,000,000. The place sits on catacombs that will become the world's weirdest wine cellar. Sophia and Carlo will each have...
...Kirk, he said, "adheres to the 16th century Reformation and to the theological and ethical tradition deriving from Calvin and Knox." From the back of the church came the voice of Presbyterianism...
...Meistersinger is no different in import from Wagner's more cosmic dramas, and the evening spent with the Boston Opera Group's production conveyed just that. The drama's specific setting (a curious one for Wagner) in bourgeois Nuremberg of the 16th century stresses the tie he envisioned between workmanship (or the Volk), and art's unmeasurable dreams...