Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venice (Sept. 12-27). New works by Italian composers plus the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's 15-minute religious oratorio Gesualdo Monumentum, a work inspired by the writings of 16th century Madrigal Composer Don Carlo Gesualdo (who evidently used his music to sublimate his personal troubles; he had his wife and her lover murdered, suffocated one of his children...
...fiercest anti-Catholics of 1960 look like models of moderation beside the An glicans of 16th and 17th century England...
...where will this inquiry lead? Space scientists consider the question rather ridiculous. No one, they say, could have foreseen what would happen when 16th century astronomers looked out at the solar system and decided that the sun does not revolve around the earth. But out of that bold assault on old and in correct ideas grew the modern science that has enabled man to outgrow his planet. In the past three years, man's knowledge of his universe has increased more than in the centuries between Galileo and Sputnik I. What tomorrow may hold overwhelms the imagination...
Currently with the Detroit Tigers in his 16th year of organized baseball, First Baseman Bilko has long been dubbed "the Paul Bunyan of the Bushes." The name is well earned for Bilko's minor-league record is formidable: in 1956, for example, he batted .360, hit 55 home runs, and knocked in 164 runs for Los Angeles, then in the Pacific Coast League. Such minor-league larruping at one time placed a $200,000 price tag around Stout Steve's bullneck, had won him four major-league tries before this year's with the Tigers. Each time...
...Like the good country cousins they are, the Kansas City Athletics traded slugging Outfielder Bob Cerv to the New York Yankees for bench-riding Third Baseman Andy Carey to complete the 16th in a series of deals between the two clubs in the past five years, involving 61 players. Sent to the Athletics by the Yankees in 1956, Cerv celebrated his return by going three-for-five in his opening game, hitting a homer in his second, but still could not prevent two Yankee losses to the Chicago White...