Word: 1840s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSTANGS AND COW HORSES, edited by J. Frank Dobie, Mody C. Boatwright and Harry H. Ransom. Authentic writing about the prairie of the 1840s when huge herds of swift, hardy mustangs had the run of the great plains. Then, in one brutal decade, they were tamed or killed in the frontiersmen's relentless surge to the Rockies...
...living, in the 1840s, Daubigny worked for travel books and magazines, doing graphics of a candidness that showed his immediate vision of nature. The more dependent his landscapes became on fleeting optical visions, the flatter they grew, as if no matter how far away an object was, it registered equally on his retina. In the eight years between Morning on the Oise and Field in June, Daubigny traded the traditional depth of his predecessors for the surface impact of red poppies. Eventually, even such panoramas were replaced by the narrower vision that the eye can encompass without moving...
...other game interests Latin Americans so much. The continent's futbol madness began as a respectable British import. In the 1840s, the citizens of Argentina's port of Buenos Aires watched in fascination as the crews of British ships idled away dockside hours kicking a ball around. In Peru, where other British sailors spread the fever, the saying is that "the only good things we owe the British are soccer and Scotch." And of the two, soccer is by far the more intoxicating. It appeals to a Latin sense of rhythm, of masculine grace and strength...
...such distinction was possible before the emancipation of European Jewry from the ghettos between 1790 and the 1840s. Until then, the Jew lived in an insulated community that ensured conformance to tradition. Emancipation freed the Jew from the confines of community, and coming in contact with the ideas of the Enlightenment freed him from reliance on the tradition of Jewish theology. But the price of liberty was high. Under the influence of Lessing and Kant, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) stripped Judaism of its supernatural quality by arguing that it was essentially a rational faith. Even the greatest of modern Jewish...
...demand, Northern shipowners sent ever bigger and faster ships to Africa loaded with New England rum, as well as guns, to exchange for slaves. "Worter yr. Rum as much as possible," one owner counseled his captain, "and sell as much by the short mesuer as you can." In the 1840s, so many Yankee ships from Salem traded on the island of Zanzibar (which specialized not only in slaves but made-to-order eunuchs) that the natives believed Salem was a country...