Word: 1770s
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...furniture and silverware could be imported and were, so that the work of early republican and federal craftsmen in America tends to be more sophisticated than most architecture of the day. Most of it was English, since America itself was mostly English. Just as American dissident patriots in the 1770s proudly claimed to be rebelling against George III in the name of the "true" British values of the Magna Carta and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, so American craftsmen in the 18th and early 19th century appealed to British norms of design; there was not much talk about "American" culture...
Werther's suicide for the love of Lotte inspired an epidemic of self-immolation in Germany in the 1770s, but history does not repeat itself in Lucio. True, he is in despair-life in Fascist Italy is intolerable and Beate refuses to sleep with him-but he is seeking ways to survive. Beate, on the other hand, wants to "carry despair to its logical conclusion, suicide." Their encounter, Lucio observes, had not been love, but death at first sight. Beate yearns for a suicide pact with Lucio that would be modeled on what she regards as an ideal death...