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...dictum: “Free trade is Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is free trade.”More earnings from trade were also needed to pay for growing quantities of that essential British import, Chinese tea. In the 1660s, Britain imported some two lbs. of it; by the 1780s that had become 15 million lbs., and by 1830 it was 30 million. To balance this, the British needed to sell more to China—but the Chinese did not want nearly enough of what the British tried to sell, items such as scratchy English woolens. In the meantime...
...Iraqi government until there is a new constitution. It is a good thing our Founding Fathers didn’t have to follow that rule. A constitution can, and will, emerge as the political life of the country takes shape, just as it did for America in the 1780s. We need an interim Iraqi government...
...also saw what nice, respectable girls can do. This is the message carried by many of the etchings known as the Caprichos, and even by his early decorative tapestry designs of the 1770s and 1780s, before illness and deafness turned him into the stricken, black Goya, haunted by death and disaster, who speaks with such appalled and appalling clarity to our century. The Straw Mannikin, his tapestry design of 1791-92, can be read as a country amusement--four girls tossing a straw-stuffed mannequin of a petimetre, a male dandy dressed in the French fashion, up and down...
...including two recently produced at Harvard, David plans to begin work on his thesis this summer in Paris. Inspired by a visit to the Paris catacombs the summer after his freshman year, he plans to write a play about the man who built the massive underground crypt during the 1780s. “A lot of people sort of dread their theses and all the academic work involved,” he said. “I think it will be a great learning experience, but also a really fun experience...
...least, not much that he did say has been preserved, since he had no Boswell and the gossips who adored his work, like the Goncourt brothers, came from a later generation and never met him. But there is a tantalizing remark attributed to him by a writer of the 1780s, Charles-Nicolas Cochin: "I must forget everything I have seen and even forget the way such objects have been treated by others." This hints at the extreme pride and immense ambition that underwrote Chardin's apparently modest arrangements of brown jugs, water glasses, dead rabbits and fruit...