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...that had already set. This fact, crucial to an understanding of Gauguin's art, is elegantly documented in a selection of his pre-Tahiti paintings that opens this week at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The show runs from Gauguin's first semi-impressionist works of the early 1870s through a spectrum of influences to the full development of his style at Aries and Pont-Aven in the late 1880s. And it provides useful insights upon one of the more picturesque figures in early modernism, whose career demonstrated that unforgettable images could be drawn from a system of selfdelusion...
Some 40 years ago, an elderly lady sat down in a farmhouse on the edge of the Missouri Ozarks and wrote a book about her frontier childhood in the 1870s. Warm and straightforward, full of detail, Little House in the Big Woods was followed by seven more volumes-only slightly disguised as fiction -that carried the heroine. Laura Ingalls, to the point of marriage with Almanzo Wilder. Collectively and individually, all the books have become classics of children's literature. It is safe to say that they have given a notion of what pioneer life was like...
Racial discrimination in the jury box has grown far more subtle since the 1870s, when many state laws openly barred blacks as jurors. The Supreme Court has consistently struck down unfair statutes and practices. But the court has insisted only that black defendants have a right to a fair chance that blacks be on the jury, and the right is seldom fulfilled in practice: most juries are permitted to remain white. In the 1965 case of Swain v. Alabama, for example, the court upheld the conviction of a black rape suspect, even though peremptory challenges had excluded all blacks from...
...late 1870s, the ruling Kabaka welcomed the Anglican and Catholic missionaries who followed Explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But after the old king's death, the ruler's dissolute heir did not; the young man resented the fact that his Christian pages refused his homosexual advances. Finally, egged on by a jealous Prime Minister, the Kabaka determined to crush the new religion, and in one bloody, 15-month period, beginning in 1885, ordered the murders or executions of 22 Catholics and at least 23 Anglicans. Paul declared the Catholic martyrs saints...
College Grads and Clam Beds. By the 1870s-chasing a new breed of bank robbers, mostly ex-soldiers like the Younger Brothers of Missouri, and pouncing on cheating streetcar conductors in the East-Pinkerton agents were operating out of offices in New York and Philadelphia. The revolutionary slum boy from Glasgow was able to build himself a Scottish estate in Onarga, Ill., complete with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society...