Word: 17th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honored 69-year-old Alfred Einstein as one of the world's outstanding music historians and critics. In a three-day celebration, fellow members of the Smith faculty and students played and sang some of the music they thought would please him most. It ranged from 16th and 17th Century Italian madrigals that Musicologist Einstein himself had unearthed and edited, to Mozart and Schubert quartets and compositions by 20th Century Composers Roger Sessions and Benjamin Britten. Old and new, the music was done to Scholar Einstein's taste...
...weekly lecture, every fortnight or so drops by to visit his distinguished cousin Albert. Last year the Princeton University Press published the three-volume book he has been working toward for over 30 years, The Italian Madrigal, which not only is the definitive work on 16th and early 17th Century Italian secular music but a historical study of Renaissance Italy as well...
...Flinching. In his 60s Smith was once rummaging through a bookstore when he met a clerk who shared his enthusiasm for the writings of 17th Century Jeremy Taylor. Bound by this quirk of taste, the old littérateur and the young clerk became close friends. After 17 years as Smith's apprentice and companion, that clerk, Robert Gathorne-Hardy, has written a fascinating memoir of his master's life...
...Swot. "Slang," decides Marples, "is a form of youthful ebullience," and nothing, no matter how sacred, is safe from its inventiveness. At Oxford and Cambridge, short academic gowns have been known as rags or cover-arses, bum-curtains or tail-curtains. In the 17th Century, venerable dons were called pupil-mongers, and in the 18th they were gerund-grinders. The heads of colleges were skulls ("a skull being an ancient and desiccated head"), and their meeting place was Golgotha...
...Jowler. Like anything else, university slang has had its contagious fads. In the 17th Century, students ranged their drinking companions in a sort of academic hierarchy. A Bachelor meant a lean drunkard, a Bachelor of Law was one "that hath a purple face, inchac't with rubies," a Doctor was one that "hath a red nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both...