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...fecund in painting, book design, tapestry, embroidery, stained glass, tiles, mosaic. He had little formal art training and always felt insecure about his figure drawing. What fired him as an artist was his early, deep and long-lasting friendship with William Morris, whom he met at Oxford in the 1850s, when both were new undergraduates. They had meant to go into the Anglican Church, but in 1855 they resolved to dedicate their lives to art and design...
...Smiley's latest, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, all of these questions remain unanswered--except for the last one. The idea of anyone writing a picaresque novel about a bold, "plain-looking," young woman settling in Kansas Territory with her abolitionist husband during the 1850s, sounds like a difficult sell, even for an extremely popular author...
Back in the 1850s, John W. Webster, a professor at the Medical School murdered his colleague, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Minerology Dr. George Parkman, after a heated argument...
This is nothing new for a neighborhood where Irish and German gangs fought pitched battles in the streets during the 1850s. But the intolerance has roots in the present as well as the past. Since 1980, when low real estate prices began drawing Chinese and Mexicans into Bridgeport, the ethnic texture of the place has changed dramatically. Today Halsted Street, Bridgeport's commercial artery, is a bustling carnival of whites, Mexicans, Asians and blacks who mingle in the bakeries, the grocery stores and the luncheonettes...
...Alabama had held a referendum on segregation in the 1950s or on slavery in the 1850s, wickedness would have won each time. Krauthammer calls it "democracy" when a numerically stronger group (whites) forces the numerically weaker group (blacks) to do its will. Enlightened men call it tyranny. JONATHAN FARLEY Berkeley, California...