Word: 1870s
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...Neapolitan baker named Raffaele Esposito—and some would say perfected at a Cantabrigian restaurant on Winthrop St.—pizza is an unassuming peacemaker with a storied past. There have been other attempts at formulating an unbeatable weapon for peace. Samuel Colt tried in the 1870s with his Colt 45 “Peacemaker” revolver. U.S. scientists tried during the Cold War, with their LGM-188A “Peacekeeper” intercontinental ballistic missile. And George Clooney and Nicole Kidman tried, and failed miserably, in 1997 with their movie “The Peacemaker...
...central American trauma of the 19th century, the Civil War, from painting. Its fratricidal miseries were left to writers (Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane) to explore, and to photographers. But painting served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children and bucolic courtships try to memorialize the halcyon days of the 1850s; the children gazing raptly at the blue horizon in Three Boys On The Shore, their backs forming a shallow arch, in a sense are this lost America. None of this prevented Homer's contemporaries...
Since its inception in the mid 1870s, the MFA has been in a constant state of change and expansion. Quickly outgrowing its original Copley Square location, the museum has been adding wings intermittently ever since relocating to its current Huntington Avenue location at the turn of the century. Constantly expanding to keep up with the times, the museum features exhibitions and concerts in all forms...all, that is, except indie-rock. Until...
...happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." LEO TOLSTOY, in the opening lines of Anna Karenina, his 1870s novel that is No. 1 on the best-seller list after being picked for Oprah's Book Club...
...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...