Word: fifteenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courtly traditions of elegance in love, etiquette and music? If so the Collegium Iosquinium may have just the thing to soothe your pageant-starved soul. Directed by Harvard lecturer Arthur Loeb, the group will present songs and dances from the Burgundian and French courts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the suitably formal surroundings of the Fogg Art Museum's courtyard. The performance is one of a series of Sunday Afternoon Concerts sponsored by the museum and is free and open to the public...
...structure. The building was designed in imitation of a Renaissance palazzo--and the spirit of this exhibit is uniquely Renaissance: a syncretic selection of "the best." The impression is enforced physically. Walking through the linked upstairs galleries it's easy to imagine yourself strolling through the suite of a fifteenth or sixteenth century patron of the arts, some Italian prince, perhaps. "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall...
...Crimson had a shot at evening things up when Bruce Marrett went to the box for high sticking. Harvard's power play foozled when Jim Vaughan victimized Petrovek on a short-handed breakaway goal. The unassisted score at 11:14 was Vaughan's fifteenth of the season...
Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is, unfortunately, a tedious, though visually beautiful film by a great director. Alexander Nevsky is a patriotic Russian prince of the fifteenth century who drives out the Teutonic Knights, and the whole film is a transparent Russian nationalist allegory for the Second World War consisting almost entirely of battle scenes. For the first twenty minutes the sight of these elaborately armored and cross bedecked knights fighting in the snow seems breathtaking, but the effect soon wears off and cannot sustain the last two hours. Eisenstein made this film to please Stalin, making it possible...
What makes the win so incredible is the fact that Princeton, a perennial tennis powerhouse, was fielding one of its best teams ever. Ranked no lower than fifteenth in the nation throughout the year, the Tigers had beaten Miami, North Carolina and Texas and had lost a close match to Stanford. "They're one of the absolute top teams in the United States," Barnaby said. "It's like beating Ohio State in football...