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...Drunkard is a very old musical play about alcohol and the wages of sin, and it's being produced at the 369 School for the Performing Arts up in Somerville. The play was written in the 1840s, but apparently got changed by bits and pieces over the years. With some excellent background work, the people at 369 have gone a long way to restoring the piece to its original condition. The music for the play is lost, but the show's producers have come up with a score that is purportedly true to its source. Weekend performances begin...
Since the Opium War with Britain in the 1840s, pride has not come easy for Chinese, but before England's appalling imperialist attack, China had thought themselves to be the center of the world, the self-sufficient Middle Kingdom. Chinese had looked on their relationships with outside powers as one-sided: They even resented the intrustion of foreign music into the Royal Court as an unnecessary outside influence...
...Ullmann as Karl-Oscar and Kristina Neilson, took life, Troell detailed the tough choices and sacrifices, the illnesses and griefs that propelled the group to the Promised Land. Despite the ambivalent picture he painted of the passage into Canaan. of the hostile reaction these immigrants of the mid-1840s encountered in America, Troell brought The Emigrants to a climactic affirmation as Karl-Oscar blazed the boundaries of his new farm by the shores of a Minnesota lake...
...chief limits upon early 19th century expansionism were economic; not until the 1840s could the United Stated be considered industrial. Inevitably, the construction of direct economic links between North and West with new developments in railroads and communication disrupted the delicate balance between the industrial North and the agrarian South and West which had held the early Union together...
Eastern capitalists had looked to China as a possible overseas outlet for profitable investment and commodities since the 1840s. Under Secretary of State William H. Seward, the United States purchased Alaska and annexed the Midway Islands as stepping stones to Asia...