Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hunt is as old as art itself. The an -cient Assyrians celebrated the chase in bas-reliefs, the Chinese in stone drums, the Babylonians and Egyptians in frescoes. Millenniums before, cavemen at the foot of the French Pyrenees depicted a mammoth hunt on their cavern walls. The ingenious killing of beasts larger and more powerful was, after all, the central achievement in man's ascendancy over other forms of life. But the hunt seems early to have been less of a search for food than a heroic confrontation between man and beast, and a sport worthy of kings. Charlemagne...
...stag, buck and boar hounds, and the fastest fleet of greyhounds in medieval Europe. The chase in the Middle Ages was an immensely sophisticated pursuit. Knowing better than any man of his day how it should be pursued, Gaston in 1387 wrote a delightfully detailed treatise on the hunt titled Le Livre de la Chasse...
...versions that survive is an edition with gold leaf on vellum that once belonged to Ferdinand and Isabel of Spain. It can now be seen in a display of medieval masterworks at The Cloisters in Manhattan. The miniaturist is unknown, but he seems to have followed the hunt almost as well as his author, perhaps even ridden to hounds with...
...Hunt has most of this year's freshman cross country team, including Bobby Seals, Rick Jurgens, Phil Lichenstein, Mike Koerner, and Andy Meltzoff, for the distance events, but the standout so far has been Jim Davis, a half-miler who ran in the seventh and eighth positions for the cross country team this fall...
Davis, who ran a 1:55 half mile last year, has been the most impressive in his own particular event, Hunt said yesterday, and he should be a top-flight half-miler...