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...that from its title, which sounds like a tender coming-of-age novel, nor from its subtitle - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science - which sounds like a course you napped through in college. But Holmes' account of experimental science at the end of the 1700s - when amateurs could still make major discoveries, when one new data point could overthrow a worldview - is beyond riveting. Science was like punk rock: if you had a basement, some free time and some hubris, you could...
...term, according to some historians, comes from the color of the paper used to print the first decrees, in New Haven, Conn. Others believe it refers to blue's use as an 18th century slang term for "rigidly moral." If you were a settler in the 1700s, Sunday was a day to rest and honor the Sabbath, nothing less and (definitely) nothing more. It wasn't just alcoholic beverages that were forbidden; if you cut your hair, picked up a broom or even kissed your kid, you were in violation of blue laws and could be subject to fines, whippings...
...self-proclaimed proponent of aesthetics, Shemtov has a history of decking out his rooms. His apartment in New York City is a sleek black and white creation. During his stay in Lionel freshman year, he used red brocade fabric, old prints from the 1700s, and even a chandelier to create an elaborate setting. “That was my over-the-top year,” he says...
Black Watch is a subtler and more powerful picture of men in war. It too is a docuplay, written by Gregory Burke, from interviews with members of the Black Watch regiment--a storied Scottish fighting unit that dates back to the early 1700s. But what could have been dry and didactic is transformed by a host of inventive, kinetic environmental-theater devices: strobe-and-sound effects to simulate the shock of battle, video screens, interludes of traditional Scottish military songs, evocatively choreographed group movement. In one sequence, soldiers silently pass letters from home to one another, reading and weaving about...
...religious zealot Cotton Mather—who left Harvard in the early 1700s “after decrying its godlessness”—would smile, however, had he known of President Faust’s latest crusade...