Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rising sun, silver-haired Veer Bhadra Mishra steps into the Ganges to begin his ritual morning ablution. As the mahant, or spiritual and administrative head, of the second largest temple in Varanasi, the main destination for Hindu pilgrims in India, Mishra is a very important man. Since the 16th century, the job has passed from father to eldest son. Devotees scramble to touch his feet, traders whisper their business hopes, and students seek his blessing before final exams. As a child he learned the sacred chants and rites--including the importance of a daily dip in the Ganges, the river...
...hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead/They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot/Diphtheria and the flu/Excuse me--Great Nations coming through!"). The song's caustic end: that "some bug from out of Africa" might destroy America "like the great nations of Europe in the 16th century." You are permitted to gulp in horror as you hum along...
Over 50 years later, things are looking up for David Satcher, who, having conquered his childhood illness, took the oath to become the country's 16th surgeon general and the assistant secretary of health in February...
That's still a fraction of America's 50 million Catholics. But partly in response to Gen-X interest, the Atlanta Archdiocese created a separate parish this spring for the Priestly Society of St. Peter, clerics who celebrate only the most traditional and elaborate style of Latin Mass, the 16th century Tridentine. In Chicago, parishioners like Paul Recchia, 29, who says the pop excesses of the modern Mass "disturbed me," have opted for the Tridentine at the ornate St. John Cantius Catholic Church--where half the weddings are now done in that fashion...
Brendel began taking piano lessons when he was six, but he was not a prodigy. He didn't have a steady teacher, or attend a prestigious music conservatory, or possess the kind of breathtaking technical virtuosity that instantly seduces listeners. "After my 16th birthday, I did not have a teacher," he says. "I only went to two or three master classes. So it was a slower development, but it was my own...I'm used to trying to find things out for myself...