Word: 1850s
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When questioned on the relevance of his own party to the American political process, Stowe cites the gains made by the new Republican party in the 1850s and 1860s as an example worthy of emulation...
...President and the Speaker of the House, plus the possibility of an imminent recession--each of which in its own right would be enough to shred this idyllic scenario. The division between a Democratic President and a Republican Congress has been, since the current party system began in the 1850s, the country's least productive political arrangement. Splits may work for champagne, or maybe bananas, but they often don't make for good government in Washington...
Exciting stuff but almost certainly fictional. Traill, who has studied Schliemann for nearly 20 years, first became skeptical of the archaeologist's veracity in 1978, when he found an eyewitness account Schliemann wrote about a San Francisco fire. Schliemann lived in California in the early 1850s, amassing a fortune as a banker during the gold rush (he also made millions as an indigo trader and a sometimes shady profiteer in Russia during the Crimean War). But the fire occurred while Schliemann was out of town, and a month earlier than the report said...
...seen as a true precursor of Impressionism. Many of his lithographs and etchings of landscape have the same vitality. Full of wind and weather, they show pleasure in the mark for its own sake--Corot was a terrific scribbler at his best--and some are boldly experimental. In the 1850s Corot was among the first artists to explore the so-called cliche-verre, a way of printmaking that entailed covering a sheet of glass with opaque collodion, scratching the design through it, then placing it over photosensitized paper and exposing it to light--an early hybrid of etching and photography...
...suggestion is idiotic and, among other things, an insult to the free, peaceful, democratic elections of last November. The 1850s needed nothing less than a Civil War to settle the slavery and union argument, which was so utterly central and intractable it had to turn violent. The very meaning of American civilization was at issue. The blast in Oklahoma City, though horrific and indelible, may have been very much in the American grain, but it occurred entirely outside the civilization's pale, at the delusional margins...