Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find their way into modern concert halls only infrequently; music for two bassoons practically never. Yet an entire literature exists for the "bass oboe"- as it is sometimes called-both solo and in ensemble. As Sunday night's program indicated, the great wealth of such music lies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; evidently it was the nineteenth that bannished bassoons from the recital stage to the Stygian regions of the orchestra...
Soon alarming things began to happen in Salem Village. In the spring of 1692, many of the regular members of Tituba's audience developed pronounced symptoms of hysteria. Their actions can doubtless be easily explained by modern psychiatry. But to the Puritans of Salem, indeed to any seventeenth century man, these were puzzling and frightening phenomena. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the children had been bewitched. After all, everyone know the power of the Devil and no one doubted the existence of witches. Does not the Bible say: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live...
Julian Seymour Schwinger, thirty-five-year-old Professor of physics, has kept his life pretty much to himself. Since his seventeenth birthday, this genial, soft-spoken man has been challenging the frontiers of physics, armed with only his intellect, a pencil, and paper. Far removed from most undergraduates, only dimly aware of the machinery of collegiate life, and vaguer even about his own past, Schwinger dwells in a world apart. His personality spills out only in odd stories--his reputation for writing with both hands on the blackboard, his night-owl habits, and his excellence at ping-pong...
...completed shield, never adopted officially in those early days, was forgotten for nearly two hundred years. Meanwhile, Christo et Ecclenas, another motto suggested in the seventeenth century, gained a wide following...
...sophomore tutorial in preparing him to deal with his field as a whole. Moreever, there is an extraordinary difficulty of getting six students to agree on a common subject--not to mention even a common hour. Whatever subject the tutor settles on--a major author or a topic like seventeenth century prose, or the modern novel, half his group will be already taking a more specialized course in it or prefer to do so the following year. If this sort of duplication is pleasing to some students, it is a cause of chronic complaint to others. It might be that...