Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Byrd & His Age (Alfred Deller; Basel's Wenzinger Consort of Viols; Vanguard). Music from the golden age of English music (16th-17th centuries) sung in the round, slightly hooty but flexible alto of famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...
...hire an admissions board which will be given to understand that the cream of any crop, to use an old saw, tends to rise upwards rather than to move horizontally, and that the entrance exams used in the 17th century (even) at Oxford University were recently discarded...
...charge of the new western territory taken from the Germans. He did Soviet bidding, though he was distressed by Russia's dismantling and removal of factories. "I fought against the Germans," he once told a group of peasants. "I will not allow Poland to become the 17th Soviet Republic...
...story of England's Civil War, crowded with gaudy and eloquent figures of drama, squalor and nobility, Churchill has also been writing a neglected chapter in American history. His narrative takes U.S. schoolbook history a generation back from where it usually starts. His brilliant sketch of turbulent 17th century England explains just how the Puritans on the run, gentlemen adventurers and refugees got their start in the New World, and what they had in mind when they touched American soil...
...YORK, Nov. 19--Varsity ace Pete Reider turned in one of the most impressive Crimson cross country performances in recent years as he finished 17th in a field of 350 runners in the 49th annual IC4A Championships at Van Cortlandt Park here this afternoon...