Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowen's winning topic was the 17th meditation from "Devotions upon emergent Occasions" by John Donne. Moore's subject was entitled "The Creation: A Negro Sermon" by James Weldon Johnson...
...country that knows only realistic scenery, the late Christian Berard's setting is a revelation. He gives us no representation of a 17th-century town house, down to the last door-knob. Instead, Berard has found the essence of the play and put it on the stage in simple physical terms. The process is more than an intellectual or emotional one; it is also richly imaginative. This exceptionally rich and sure imagination is what distinguishes Berard's work...
...summonses had commanded all offenders to appear at 9 a.m. At 9:30, to the chant of "Stand up! Stand up!" repeated by boosters in various corners of the room, wizened Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 entered the court through a curtain behind the bench. The bailiff bellowed in 17th century English that it was March 8th and that Court was in session...
Fourteen Hours (20th Century-Fox). A suicidal young man named John Warde stood the U.S. on its ear 13 years ago when he perched all day on the 17th-floor ledge of Manhattan's Gotham Hotel before going over the edge. Inspired by Joel Sayre's New Yorker account, "The Man on the Ledge," skillful moviemakers have turned one of 1938's most exciting news events into a tense, semi-documentary drama that bids firmly for 1951 film honors...
...17th Century English traders built a fort on the Gold Coast, competed fiercely with Dutch, Danes and Portuguese for slaves and gold. Early in the 19th Century the slave traffic was abolished. Today, in a jungle domain almost as large as Oregon, the leading enterprises are cocoa production, gold and manganese mining...