Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 17th Century, the Americas sparkled with 70,000 churches. As the baroque influence increased, façades and portals were encrusted with a rich mixture of Christian and pagan symbols: angels topped by feathered headdresses; decorative borders of puma heads, papayas, pineapples and bananas; mermaids playing native guitars side by side with powerful primitive versions of the saints...
Increasingly, chamber music pays. For a concert performance, the Budapest gets at least $800. Annual earnings: about $25,000 a man (to which record royalties contribute about $5,000 apiece). Audiences still thrive on the standard 17th and 18th Century repertory, but the quartet has found some listeners eager for modern cacophonies and "deeper stuff," adds a smattering here & there of late Beethoven, Bartok and Schoenberg. Four U.S. composers whose music has been added to the repertory this year: Lukas Foss, Quincy Porter, Walter Piston and Samuel Barber. Television? Not yet, says Spokesman Schneider. "Why would people want...
...1670s poisoned her father and two brothers for the family fortune. Even though she was tortured, beheaded and cremated, her methods inspired so many imitators that 17th Century alchemists were soon earning their main income from selling "powders of succession...
...burn them in long after his arm grew old and his speed ball slower, hit bottom in 1949 by winning barely half his games. This year, Bob Feller, no longer a thrower, but a crafty pitcher, is well up the comeback trail. Last week he chalked up his 17th victory of the year (against four defeats), to lead the major leagues in games...
Genealogy experts in London traced two new branches which relate Queen Elizabeth to William Shakespeare. The Queen, it seems, is 18th in descent from one Mary Whalesborough, sister of Shakespeare's great-great-great-grandmother; the Queen is also 17th in descent from one John Belknap, brother of Shakespeare's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Meanwhile at Sandringham, the Queen joined King George VI in a garden party for members of the National Federation of the Blind. The King, who has canceled all public engagements since his recent illness, leaned on a shepherd's staff and posed...