Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jasinski has been called "one of the world's outstanding authorities on French Literature." He is especially interested in the works of the 17th and 19th centuries...
...parallel to Pentagon red tape was the drill for loading, firing and reloading a musket in the British army in the 17th century. The drill was designed to eliminate individual error and to achieve uniform rate of fire. Its 31 orders, as recorded by Robert Graves in Sergeant Lamb's America: "March with your rest in your hand! March, and with your musket carry your rest! Unshoulder your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming...
...Howard Universities became the first and second Negro universities to install chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. ¶ Appointment of the Week: Courtney Craig Smith, 36, to succeed John W. Nason (now head of the Foreign Policy Association) as ninth president of Swarthmore College. A graduate of Harvard. Smith studied 17th century English literature as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, returned to Harvard for his Ph.D., in 1946 joined the faculty of Princeton University. When Swarthmore found him, he was American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees - a position he took over from Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore's seventh president and grand...
Family: A bachelor, youngest son of an aristocratic Swedish family of civil servants and army men that traces its nobility to a 17th century warrior knighted for bravery in a war against the Danes. His father, Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, 91, was World War I Prime Minister of Sweden. A brother, now dead, was a judge at the Court of International Justice, The Hague...
...emphasis of the current exhibition is different from that of the French government exhibit. There are not many drawings of the 17th century, for example, although a Poussin drawing of "The Presentation in the Temple" and two landscapes by Claude are from that period...