Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, in the Louis XIV ballroom of the Hotel Somerset the Harvard Outing Club will put on a Harvard Square Dance. Members of the Outing Club will get the festivities under way with a demonstration of two square dance sets. After that they will mingle among the uninitiated to assist neophyte square dancers...
...incense-like aromatics. They suspect that a lovely court lady, deliciously spiced for her time, might be rushed to the nearest exit by moderns. They also suggest that expensive modern perfumes (containing synthetics and animal sex lures) might have caused a similar reaction at the court of Louis XIV...
...girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended wit and workmanship. Five hundred such pieces, crammed into three small rooms at the Met, made a sparkling show...
...French and Indian priests, the history of the school and of French Canada have been interwoven. Laval was the center of learning in New France. After the British conquest, it continued to educate French-speaking leaders. Money from Bishop de Laval's lands (granted to him by Louis XIV) kept the school going. Laval turned out scholars who kept alive the French culture in the English-governed land...
...Arthur Rank, having cornered all the movie rights to the XIV Olympiad, has produced a fine film of the games at St. Moritz and London, as complete as general interest and one sitting will stand, well-edited and photographed in excellent technicolor...