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...happened that Seltzer's second term as director of the Loeb marked the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's (and Marlowe's) birth. That called for a celebration -- and everyone wanted to take part. The Shakespeare Festival, generally plotted by Chapman, Hamlin, and Seltzer the preceding Spring, was expected to be one of the most exciting events not only in the history of the Loeb, but of Harvard theatre...
Daniel Seltzer, director of the Loeb, said yesterday that Monteverdi's "Il Combattimento di Tancredie Clorinda," and Luciano Berio's "Passagio" will coincide with the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth...
...work. For the past seven years, I have risen religiously at about 4 o'clock every morning and, during that time, have written at least seven books of poetry and prose. I am now at work on a book on Human Nature (a big subject), already in its 400th typed page...
...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...