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...productions became increasingly popular, and the organization grew. By the 1860s, the theatricals company was putting up eight shows a season. In 1866, they stopped borrowing plots and music from professional plays and operas, and their shows became solely student-written and student-produced. In 1867, the Pudding staged its first production before a public audience and in 1888 moved to 12 Holyoke Street. The Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the Hasty Pudding Club formally separated in 1925, although they shared membership until the 1970s and shared the 12 Holyoke Street building until 2003, when the social club departed...
...works, this coffee-table anchor is the basis for a PBS series that starts Nov. 8. America is superbly written and thoroughly researched. Yet its power draws from the commonalities it finds between, say, Isaac Merritt Singer, whose sewing-machine firm was the first U.S. multinational in the 1860s, and Russell Simmons, the rap producer who took hip-hop global in the 1990s...
...among other things, xenophobic. Such apprehension is understandable given the hyperbolic scapegoating of immigrants throughout history. It is understandable given the emergence of nativism and discrimination during other periods of large-scale immigration to the United States: whether from Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s; from China in the 1860s and 1870s; or from Eastern Europe at the turn of the century...
Cancer: The Wound That Never Heals Back in the 1860s, renowned pathologist Rudolf Virchow speculated that cancerous tumors arise at the site of chronic inflammation. A century later, oncologists paid more attention to the role that various genetic mutations play in promoting abnormal growths that eventually become malignant. Now researchers are exploring the possibility that mutation and inflammation are mutually reinforcing processes that, left unchecked, can transform normal cells into potentially deadly tumors...
...women talk and relax--they walk in the gardens, soak in the Jacuzzi and savor a Southern breakfast with homemade grits and biscuits. But the Akwaaba isn't burrowed deep in the heart of Dixie or even in some bucolic New England town. The inn, dating to the 1860s, is smack in the middle of Brooklyn, N.Y., just 10 blocks from Bakr's apartment. "Our mom loves the place, so we always go back," Bakr says. "You feel like you're in the country, but you have all the conveniences of the city...