Word: 1860s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father sunning on a poppy-laden terrace with pennants flapping overhead and the bustling harbor beyond. To critics today, the painting's brilliant colors seem to mark a historic moment, the "thrusting open of French doors to the whole world of light outside." But the fashion of the 1860s was for brownish landscapes of the Barbizon school; Monet was able to sell his work for only $41. Six years later, his Sunrise: An Impression created a furor in Paris and gave its name to a new school of art, impressionism...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon star in The Leopard (1963), a tale of Italy's aristocracy during the 1860s...
Well-documented records of the longevity of Civil War veterans give Myers his most solid evidence of the true rate of attrition by age. Of 2,100,000 men in the Union Army in the 1860s, there were 430,000 drawing pensions in 1914, all of whom had given reasonably satisfactory proof of age. By 1945-at which date one of those 15-year-old drummer boys who enlisted in the last weeks of the war would have to be 95-there were only 210 Union veterans left. In 1954, only one survived, and he died...
...1860s, when maritime raiders roamed the East Coast to lure sailing ships onto reefs and loot them, a mustached sea captain, Israel J. Merritt of New York, organized an honest salvage operation. Merritt's aim was to save a vessel from sinking if he could-or, if he could not, to salvage it and its cargo. He succeeded so well that his firm, joined by two others, grew into Merritt-Chapman & Scott, the nation's largest corporation involved in marine salvage, and later a construction giant as well. But eventually, Merritt-Chapman & Scott itself fell prey to raiders...
...years since La Farge died, 30 since his last big memorial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. To recall his considerable accomplishments, Manhattan's Graham Gallery is currently showing a retrospective of La Farge's work, from his academic studies of the 1860s to his free, spontaneous washes and water-colors of unspoiled South Sea islands. They go far toward establishing La Farge as one of the originals of his day, an innovator if not a revolutionary, a romantic who opened up his canvases to the influences of all ages, yet imposed on nature a vision...