Word: xv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than four centuries, Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University has been both the pride and the protector of Roman Catholic orthodoxy. Eight of its alumni have become saints. Thirty-three have been beatified. Fifteen have become Pope, from Gregory XV (1621-23) to Paul VI. Every year 30 to 40 of its alumni become bishops. Fully two-thirds of the church's seminary professors of theology have taken some part of their education at the Gregorian...
Tynan: Until quite recently, erotic art was a category of art, accepted as such in China and India. Boucher's paintings for Louis XV were intended to arouse Louis XV, and by all accounts they did. I have been sexually aroused reading D. H. Lawrence, reading Ovid and reading of Hero and Leander. And it was Sir Kenneth Clark who said that anyone who paints a nude with no desire to produce an erotic effect is a hypocrite...
...Nudged by demand, a fantastic avalanche of bear traps, Ball mason jars, Prince Albert tobacco tins, grocery scales and mustache cups is pouring onto dealers' shelves. The rust and dust of their long exile in cellars and attics are as carefully preserved as the patina on a Louis XV fauteuil. Green glass electric insulators, the kind still visible high on telephone poles in parts of the country, are selling briskly at about $2.50 apiece from Poland, Me., to San Francisco; they are used inside homes as candlesticks, paperweights, objets trouvés. The boom has even reached old barbed...
Readers who spotted errors, or thought they did, seemed more than anxious to point them out. When the magazine seated Charles de Gaulle in a Louis XV rather than a Louis XVI chair, we heard about it. And we were sternly reprimanded for ascribing a brief quote to Aeschylus. (The author was Hesiod...
When Louis XVI succeeded Louis XV in 1774, the rococo was superseded by the neoclassical mode, an improbable amalgam of Roman severity and Bourbon frivolity exemplified by the small writing desk that stands between two tapestry-covered Louis XV armchairs. The desk's spare lines are in conflict with the riot of gilded tassels, leaves, garlands and mythological heads. In politics, the warring desires for republican simplicity and kingly extravagance proved even more difficult to resolve, and after the French Revolution the curios made for kings descended to commoners. A Jacques-Louis David crayon drawing of Napoleon...