Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From time to time the best minds wondered whether this wasn't a hell of a way to run a planet; perhaps national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all. Dante in the 14th century, Erasmus in the 16th and Grotius in the 17th all envisioned international law as a means of overcoming the natural tendency of states to settle their differences by force...
...extreme paucity of works of art that have come down to us from the Hispano-Islamic period. After the reconquest, bronze and gold were melted down, jewels prized from their settings, manuscripts burned, textiles left to rot, pottery smashed. Not much survived the iconoclastic vengeance of Christians after the 16th century...
...weight of an earlier age's revival. Critics and collectors at the end of the 19th century were so obsessed with the study and acquisition of Renaissance art that they had little time for the seicento; for them, Italian genius lay in "primitive" gold-ground altarpieces and 15th and 16th century frescoes. Consequently, Guercino, like a number of his contemporaries -- Guido Reni and the Carraccis, for instance, or even Caravaggio -- was slighted. The first Guercino exhibition was not held until three centuries after his death, in his ! birthplace in central Italy, the small Emilian city of Cento...
...Winthrop-resident, who has collected 1021 points in three years, is only the 16th Harvard player ever to score over 1000 career points...
...Southern Methodist University, followed by a thrashing at the hands of second-ranked Texas Christian University, 0-9. Then, at the Blue-Gray Classic at Montgomery, Al., the team earned a victory against Auburn, 6-3, but suffered two consecutive losses to 13th-ranked North Carolina, 6-0, and 16th-ranked Miami...