Word: isth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late Bernard Berenson had nothing but affection for the work of the isth century Italian Artist Carlo Crivelli. But when B. B. came to write his authoritative studies of Italian Renaissance painters, he felt obliged to leave Crivelli out. Though the artist was the contemporary of Giovanni Bellini, Mantegna and Piero della Francesca, he remained, in Berenson's opinion, essentially an exponent of the Late Gothic spirit-superb in his way, but "the product of stationary, if not reactionary, conditions." Last week 80 works by Crivelli and his followers were shown in the Doges' Palace of Venice...
...These boys," said the visiting professor, "are hot. They are brilliant. They are right on top of the heap." The oddly unpedantic judgment was prompted by a concert last week in Rome's isth century Palazzo Pio. Performing were four young men who make up the American Jazz Ensemble-a group that has set avant-garde beards to wagging the length of Italy...
...territories straddle the continent's southern stem and cover an area as large as Western Europe. One is square, massive Angola (pop. 4,500,000), which sprawls below the Congo along 1,100 miles of the western Atlantic shore, where Lisbon's navigators arrived in the isth century. Across the continent is the other half of Dictator-Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's African empire, Mozambique (pop. 6,300,000), whose Indian Ocean ports are among the best on the east coast. In both, the populations are sealed off from the outside world with ruthless...