Word: xv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, famed naval historian, was present, bewigged, buttoned and bowed in the fashion of the court of Louis XV. Harvard President Nathan Pusey turned up, sedate in white tie and tails. Of the 60 guests, 40 were in 18th century costume, and their names made a roll call of Boston's social top drawer. Occasion: a performance of selections from French Composer Jean-Philippe Rameau's comic ballet Platée (1745), with French Tenor Michel Sénéchal in his U.S. debut. Place: the 60-seat, century-old Varieties Theater...
Died. Pietro Canonica. 90, Italian sculptor who concentrated on heads of state (Russia's Alexander II, Turkey's Kemal Pasha) and churchmen (Benedict XV, Pius XI, St. John Bosco), fashioned the new bronze doors for Allied-bombed Monte Cassino Abbey, picturing U.S. and British air forces alongside Goths and Huns as the abbey's destroyers, composed operas (Miranda, Bride of Corinth); in Rome...
...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis XV...
...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis XV...