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Further south, in Perry Country, the atmosphere is somewhat different, and the issues are even more confused. Hazard, the country seat, has just recovered from the worst flood since the 1860s, and now it fearfully awaits the return of the fury of the pickets. (McDowell also suffered heavy floods, but destruction was less severe...
press during the 19th century. Steam-powered presses were already around; forerunners of today's giant rotary presses had appeared by the 1860s; and before the century closed. Ottmar Mergenthaler had introduced the Linotype, the first successful mechanical typesetter...
Consummate Actress. Their own dear Queen, with forbidding beneficence, hovered over it all, notably regal, notably bourgeois, and - as Author Petrie remarks - a consummate actress. The power of royalty was in one sense so limited that, as Bagehot declared in the 1860s, the monarch "must sign his own death warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to him." But the prestige of Victoria grew and grew, nor were her prerogatives trifling: she could disband the army, unman the navy, set free all prisoners, make every British citizen a peer...
...sons,' however, as Turgenev's 'sons,' interest themselves very little in ideology. But the reasons for this disinterest change considerably between the 1860s and the 1960s. The young intellectuals of Turgenev's time were materialists in an obscurantist and harshly unjust world because theoretical abstractions did not produce bread for the hungry peasants. But the current generation of intellectuals, brought up during the Stalinist era, and having both bread and ideology, fights for neither...
...prospect of a three-day leave home, and a lusty, waspish old baroness who is full of guile and as phony as her title. She is nicknamed La Garibaldina, because she used to be a camp follower in Italy's redshirt army of liberation in the 1860s, a career she has elaborated into her own self-nourishing legend that she was the schoolgirl who inspired Garibaldi's march on Rome. Phony or not. she sends the soldier whistling away into the morning sunshine surprised anew by the richness of life...