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...book without an understanding of American history and a decent command of the history of western civilization. Allyn also tells us that St. Augustine's sexual repression is the cause of the Catholic Church's current birth control policy. Allyn attributes the reform movements in the 1830s and 1840s to a crusade against sexuality in society. Allyn claims the actual intention of the graham cracker was to "soak up men's sexual desires," giving an entirely different interpretation of smores. Shockingly, Allyn claims the only cause of abolition was a deep-seated fear of miscegenation...
Chang and Eng: A Novel in Two Parts, based on the twins who emigrated in the 1840s from then Siam, is due out from Dutton next spring
...summer weekends, area rivers and springs teem with kayakers, swimmers and tubers. But tourists come year round to wander the antiques shops and museums in this architecturally intriguing community. The region was settled by German farmers in the 1840s, and many of them built tiny "Sunday houses"--weekend cottages that are not a lot bigger than a child's garden playhouse. Now the area is host to home restorers like the Mileses, as well as visitors coming to poke into craft and antiques shops and dance the Cotton-Eye Joe at the famous Gruene Dance Hall, where Garth Brooks once...
...studies at the present moment.) He has returned not only with a handsome thesis but also with a thousand oddments and curios he collected along the way--such as remarks by Charles Kingsley, the Cambridge University historian who served as chaplain to Queen Victoria. Kingsley, visiting Ireland in the 1840s, described the Irish as a biological subspecies: "I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country." It is Phillips' larger thesis that all the English-speaking peoples, including the Kingsleys, have evolved admirably since those times...
...LIVE FLESH It could be a 1940s Hollywood melodrama or an 1840s French farce, but Pedro Almodovar's gaudy thriller is as modern as Monica. His characters hurl themselves off fate's precipice to find love, lust, deliverance. A wise woman tells her beau that "making love involves two people." That's right: delirious director, dazzled viewer...