Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jazz," both musically and choreographically influ-performance. John Lewis's music is heavily influenced by the Jazz style he must use in the Modern Jazz Quartet. The Comedy depicts characters from the Commedia dell'Arte, an improvisational type of popular drama which Lewis believes was to the late seventeenth century as jazz is to the middle twentieth. The ballet was first performed under Lewis's baton in Paris...
...slalom, Steve Blodgett placed sixth, with a time of 131 seconds, fifteen seconds behind first place runner, Olympian Gordy Eaton of Middlebury. Ned Cabot was next for the Crimson, in seventeenth place. The course was a double run on a steep, bumpy trail...
Here is a proper ethic for a self-possessed, acquisitive people, and here is a bit of the seventeenth century that embodies the principles of the twentieth. If the lessons of Plymouth could inspire the 1860's, the ambitions of Jamestown are suited to our own decade...
Lewis sang several other lyrics to illustrate the history of this type of poetry. Elizabethan verse closely joined words and music, he said. The earlier seventeenth century actually interpreted moods through music, but conversational router and metaphysical complexity have both served to divorce the lyric from its musical origin...
Allen came in seventh, Ogden ninth, Cobb twelfth, and Smith seventeenth...