Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comparing the methods of today's and yesterday's researcher, he said that "it is our contention that the way the seventeenth century scientist would grope for what we now consider the basic law is the same way the scientist works today...
Boston's dim summer entertainment picture has an abnormal grow this week while John Gielgud and his troupe are stopping over for a few days on their way home. The play is "Love for Love," by William Congreve; it is a hearty, yet unsophisticated play, written in the late Seventeenth Century, when neither bitterness nor sentimentality dominated the English stage. Most of the exists seem to be to bedchambers, and the only pulling of punches is done by the Boston censors. If "Love for Love" is a "classic," it is only because people still enjoy seeing it after 250 years...
...Otis to hop off his pedestal and take a seat in the parquet. A rousing, unselfconscious performance by the celebrated Harvard University Band; several ad lib remarks delivered from the podium by director Malcolm Holmes including his introduction of "Wintergreen" as a "New England folk song dating from the seventeenth century"; and an extremely responsive audience who howled with appreciation after each number in true Soldiers Field tradition were responsible for the transformation...
...excellent production of Purcell's "Fairy Queen." This piece, officially a "masque," is an adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" written by Purcell and an anonymous poet and has not been produced (except for a short revival at Oxford and Cambridge in the '20's) since the seventeenth century. The adapting was rather liberal and none of Shakespeare is actually put to music. But in keeping with the tradition of the masque (an early and predominantly English musical form of combined opera and ballet) Purcell includes many exquisite dances, very ingeniously performed by the Sadler Wells Ballet Company...
English 300r. Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Assistant Professor Baker...