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...halberds guarded a torch-lit stage in Sanders Theater Sunday night, the setting would have been complete for the fine concert of fifteenth and sixteenth century choral music. Second in a series of three chamber music concerts for the benefit of the Radcliffe Seventieth Anniversary Fund, Sunday's program followed its predecessor in featuring rarely heard "old" music. Once your ear was tuned to the modal harmonies and the hollow sound of open fifths, you could close your eyes and hear Buxtehude, DesPres, Lassus, and Dufay, dreaming of gold brocade and tapestries...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...dramatic elements stemmed from the incredible misuse of essentially good plays which have been whipped up by Tuss McLaughry and Art Valpey for their respective senior outfits. Statisticians stopped counting after the sixteenth fumble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V.'s Out-Bungle Green, Lose 13-7 | 10/23/1948 | See Source »

...Director, 34-year-old specialist in the history of art and architecture, is the author of "Mill and Mansion," a study of architecture and society in Lowell, and has contributed to periodical literature on Italian architeure of the sixteenth century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Gets Fogg Museum Director Post | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

Fire regulations peculiar to pre-historic Sanders have forced the BTW back into the sixteenth century, when scenery was unheard of. Smartly attired pages will tote vast brightly colored banners onto the stage to suggest the tone and location of each scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organizations | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...Sixteenth Century Britons and Spaniards first disputed Belize, and the Guatemalans inherited the dispute. In mid-19th Century, Britain tried to settle it all by promising the Guatemalans a road to their back-country province of Petén in return for recognition. By failing to build the road, Guatemalans claim, the British forfeited their title. Since then the British have lost money on their colony. Apart from a seaport for Petén, all the Guatemalans would win with Belize is prestige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Battle of Belize | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

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