Word: 400th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small tidewater town of Phoebus, Va., he was christened Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. (His father, now dead, was a finance officer at a veterans' hospital, and got his name because he was born in New York City in the year of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' 1492 voyage, the week of the dedication of Columbus Circle.) Young Chris grew up in a modest duplex in a tough part of Phoebus, played a good game of sand-lot baseball and dreamed of becoming a big-leaguer. To this day, his most prized possession is a baseball he had autographed...
Sooner or later, eyes less jaded than his contemporaries' were bound to notice Romanino. His frescoes fill the churches of Brescia, his home town in northern Italy, and the chapels and monasteries dotting the surrounding countryside. When city fathers saw the 400th anniversary of his death approaching-biographers guess that he died between 1560 and 1566-they thought it high time to give a boost to his reputation. With funds from Rome, they restored the town's 11th century duomo and flooded its musty stone interior with fluorescent light; his paintings and frescoes were rounded up and mounted...
...course, summer has arrived, and carnival could not be far behind, a carnival that in this, Rio de Janeiro's 400th anniversary year, promises to be a bash of sensational proportions. But that is not it. Brazilians have suddenly realized that the revolutionary government is getting somewhere. After a rocky start, President Humberto Castello Branco is at last making remarkable headway against the country's oversized problems. Items...
...Tragical Historie of Dr. Faustus is Christopher Marlowe's greatest play. The current off-Broadway effort by the Phoenix Theater's repertory company is not so much a revival as a disinterment. It is a clammy sort of compliment to pay the Elizabethan playwright in the 400th anniversary year that he shares with Shakespeare, but perhaps better than no celebration...
...obscenity laws to a Maryland decision that cows had a perfect right to walk in the road in Antietam Furnace; from the right to counsel to the right of self-defense ("Are Hatpins Enough?"); from women lawyers to law-school journals to a juridical celebration of Shakespeare's 400th anniversary. Such variety, and the thorough analytic effort that goes with it, has won generous applause from the legal profession, a reaction greatly appreciated by Senior Editor Richard Seamon, Writer Robert Shnayerson, and everyone else connected with the section...