Word: 1820s
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...called Dallas a frontier. He talked about the 1820s, when his people first came to Texas. Land was grabbed up at 10? an acre. Now the new entrepreneurs occupy office buildings instead of ranges. But there is more than that to Dallas. People are taken at face value here, he said, "as long as they pull their own oar." Clements pulled his own oar. He built up an oil-drilling business called Sedco. The Sedco building is not a shiny tower but a set of refurbished woody offices housed in the shell of the first brick school in Dallas...
...made. He did not so much idealize stability as worship it, and as a result his entire view of rural England presents Arcadia in a new guise. One could never imagine, looking at his paintings of Dedham Vale and the River Stour, that the placid shires of the 1820s and '30s looked very different to the writer and reformer William Cobbett, that they were full of rick burners, machine breakers, hanging judges and posses of brutal yeomanry...
...Wrath of God (1973), a Spanish officer of the 16th century dreams of conquering South America and ends up alone on a raft, blithe and demented, lording it over some monkeys. In The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser (1975), a young man appears in a Nuremberg square in the 1820s, with no recollection of his past; the townspeople attempt to "civilize" Kaspar, treating him as their pet, their lab rat, their ignorant savior. In Heart of Glass (1976), a mountaintop savant predicts the fall of a small village's glass industry; panic and madness ensue. Herzog paints his pictures...
...exhibited his Indian studies in 1837 in New York City, in a hall that he rather grandiosely labeled the Indian Gallery. In his own day nobody of any consequence thought of him as a major painter-least of all Catlin himself. Even though he had established himself by the 1820s as a workaday miniaturist-portraitist in Philadelphia, he freely conceded that others were better at what he called "the limited and slavish branch of the arts in which I am wasting my life and substance for a bare living...
During his one year stay at Harvard, Rosen, who won the 1972 National Book Award for "The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven," is teaching a fall seminar on "Music of the 1820s...