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...STRANGLERS, by George Bruce. The original "thugs" were Indian marauders who strangled travelers and robbed them. It wasn't until the 1830s, when their recent victims were numbered in the tens of thousands, that a crusading British officer finally wiped them out. A horrifying, little-known facet of Empire...
...showcase for the collection is the onetime U.S. Government Patent Office at 8th and G Streets, a neoclassical building designed in the 1830s. Freshly renovated at a cost of more than $6,000,000, the new museum next October will also include The National Portrait Gallery in its south wing. The collection can use all the space it has. Among its 11,000 pictures, sculptures and objets d'art are 445 Indian paintings by George Catlin, 18 by Albert Pinkham Ryder, 15 to 25 apiece by such U.S. impressionists as Hassam and Twachtman, plus a wax-company collection...
...fourth in O'Neill's aborted nine-play cycle, A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, an epic intended to span two centuries of U.S. life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory for his daughter Sara...
...late. The auctioneer's hammer had al ready fallen, and the painting was delivered in due time to its new owner. "I was confirmed of my opinion of its merit," noted the crusty diarist judiciously on Sept. 24. Posterity agrees with his evaluation. In the 1830s, a maritime scene by Robert Salmon (see color) brought around $30 apiece. Today, Salmons sell for between $10,000 and $15,000. A recent exhibit of 93 canvases at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., organized with the help of Dartmouth Art Historian John Wilmerding, drew some 8,000 visitors, and resulted...
...shape U.S. education should take in the wake of its long era of permissiveness and mass-production methods; but it does greatly stimulate the search for answers. In short, if it does not guarantee excellence, it promises improvement. And it begins to fulfill the goal set forth in the 1830s by Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, who said: "We must teach our citizens to dread ignorance more than they dread taxation...