Word: 1700s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great monastery of El Escorial near Madrid, in the mid-1700s, a young Spanish priest named Antonio Soler used to teach music to His Most Serene Highness the Infante of Spain, Don Gabriel de Borbón. For the Infante's further diversion, Father Soler specially composed six sprightly duo-organ concertos. At their first U.S. performance last week, by Organist E. Power Biggs and Composer-Harpsichordist Daniel Pinkham, the concertos proved just as happily diverting to a modern audience as they must have been in Don Gabriel...
...Pusey and Yale's Dr. A. Whitney Griswold came to honor Dodds with solemn praise, but the occasion also had its mortarboard merriment. Spoofing Princeton's miasmic weather of yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist: Don't let our weather scare you; those other four men were all sick when they took the job. Princeton's Dodds, however, recalled...
...week: a smooth-limbed, white marble statue of Aphrodite, shown startled at her bath by an intruder. The museum identified the statue, somewhat damaged over the years, as a 1st century B.C. copy of a masterpiece produced about 300 B.C. by a follower of the great Praxiteles. In the 1700s a German count had got it from