Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living doing commission portraits of American G.I.s and tourists. "No picture survived this period," he says. "I sold them all to buy food and drink." Nights, he went to the galleries, and there he found what he wanted to do. He liked such old French masters as the 17th century's Nicolas Poussin, the 19th century's Eugene Delacroix, such moderns as Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti (TIME, July 2, 1951) and Britain's Francis Bacon. The much-admired decorative style of the Matisses is not for Paddy Swift. "Art," he thinks, "is obviously capable of expressing...
...December 17th meeting of the greater Boston and New York area graduates will be followed by a similar function in February. Tours of the College will put emphasis on having alumni see the University again...
...Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the 17th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME...
...Michigan State's football team, its 17th game in a row, over lowly, unrated Oregon State, 17-14; in Portland, Ore. Leading at halftime, 14-0, Michigan State was not only stopped cold in the second half but stood tied at 14-all with the ball on Oregon State's 8-yd. line and time left for one play. After a field-goal try sailed wide, the game looked finished. But Oregon State had been offside; on the second chance, with the clock run out, the reprieved Spartans made their three points good. Other notable winners: Notre Dame...
Towards the end of the 17th century, signs of dissolution began to appear, despite the rigid laws. Drunkenness, idleness, and varous other forms of dissipation led Cotton Mather to declare that Satan had taken up quarters at Harvard College, and would be dislodged only with Cotton Mather's election to the presidency of the school...