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...Titian searched for new directions to advance their work from beneath the shadow of these great painters. Caravaggio pointed the way. So today, Stella believes, the successors to Picasso, Kandinsky and Pollock must seek a pictorial space as potent as the one Caravaggio developed at the beginning of the seventeenth century...
Director Robert Brustein--who is the ART's Artistic Director, Professor of English at Harvard, and theatre critic for The New Republic--has performed major surgery on Thomas Middleton's seventeenth century tragedy to resurrect it for the Loeb stage. Brustein's version of the neglected Jacobean play is a kind of amalgam with the elegance of neo-classical tragedy, the gritty flow of nineteenth century Naturalism and the thematic revelance of Modernism, yet it still manages to cohere...
...late seventeenth century what is sometimes described (on no particular evidence) as the oldest profession was not necessarily the most disagreeable one for a woman to adopt--provided she was able to adopt it at an economically high level. The King--Charles II followed by his brother James II, equally lecherous but more neurotic about it--constituted the apex of the social pyramid; it was a pyramid--which any audacious pretty woman might aspire to scale if she caught the monarch...
...economic sphere, International Monetary Fund (IMF) statistics from 1979 show that South African trade with Israel is miniscule when compared to South African trade with other parts of the world. Israel ranks seventeenth in receiving South African exports (.5 percent of exports) and twenty-third in supplying its imports (.4 percent of imports). The major western industrial nations (the U.S., U.K., Japan and West Germany) are at the top of the list. Forty-six of fifty-two members of the Organization of African unity have commercial relations with South Africa. So much for Louis' U.S.-Israel-South Africa "axis...
Suddenly, however, when leaving the theater, the memory of an earlier scene jars. Father Tom, while poking around the grounds, meets an elderly woman record-keeper. She explains that, well, that plot of land has been haunted since the late seventeenth century, when an escaped Salem witch moved...