Word: 1850s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turned Inward. Viet Nam's history makes anti-Americanism a predictable phenomenon. The Vietnamese character, proud and intensely nationalistic was shaped in repeated wars with the Chinese and later with the French. Before the French invaded Indo-China in the late 1850s, Viet Nam was turned inward, in the Confucian tradition, shunning Western culture and technology. When the French arrived, they were greeted with bitter hatred and a protracted series of rebellions, which culminated in their defeat at Dienbienphu in 1954. Now that the French are long gone, having left behind businessmen, educators and diplomats, they are clearly more...
First the hardy prospectors came to parched and desolate Western Australia for gold in the 1850s. Then began a century of boom and bust that brought successive waves of fortune hunters seeking silver, tin, lead and later uranium and bauxite. But the find with the richest potential of all was iron...
...Levi. He is 73. His grandfather came West to Boonville in 1852. He told us that the language is "Boontling," which is a corruption of Boonville Lingo. In English sprinkled with Boontling, Levi described what Boonville was like in those days: a rough frontier town first settled in the 1850s by subsistence farmers and sheep and cattle ranchers, most of them of Scotch-Irish descent...
...Ureli Corelli Hill, the orchestra gave only three concerts its first year. It charged the astronomical price of $1.11 a ticket (the going price for 20 Ibs. of beef). Unlike the Vienna Philharmonic, though, which was founded the same year and forced to suspend operations several times in the 1850s, the New York Philharmonic stayed solvent...
...there was also much that had not changed. In the 1850s, American composers filled the press with complaints that the Philharmonic was bypassing native creativity in favor of established European classics. The composers are still complaining. And last week Bernstein explained why. The "natural growth and decline" of symphonic literature, he said, "has left us with a great repertory of masterpieces from the 18th and 19th centuries, but only a few from the 20th. The orchestra today is booming as never before, but as a museum. The conductor today is a kind of curator...