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...they have since the 1870s, music-loving Cincinnatians packed the flower-banked Music Hall (capacity 3,500) to hear and applaud everything. They got no beer & pretzels program from Busch. In five days and five concerts, he offered them dumpling-heavy portions of the music he loves best: Bach, Bruckner, Mahler Mozart, Verdi (the Requiem), Wagner. On the last night, the audience in the Music Hall stood up to close the festival by roaring out the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah...
...Francisco detectives who ate their lunch at a Kearney Street bakery back in the 1870s all liked soft-spoken old Charley Bolton. Charley, a Civil War veteran who lived in a nearby rooming house, often sat at the detectives' table and chatted with them, sometimes about Black Bart, the bandit nemesis of Wells Fargo stagecoaches...
...Causes. Religion's decline after the 1870s helped increase man's natural feeling of insecurity, and is thus a cause as well as a symptom, Dr. Halliday believes. Western society also suffered from changes in child-rearing, he thinks. Dr. Halliday looks skeptically at the flush toilet, and deplores its leading to too-early toilet training, hence frustration. The decline in breast-feeding and the general use of baby carriages, he thinks, robbed children of needed, reassuring contact with their mothers. Many changes were good physiologically, but bad psychologically...
...first time the Hi valley has seen strange flags. Soldiers of Czarist Russia moved into the fertile Ili in the middle 1870s. The Manchu Dowager Empress, in one of her few feats of diplomacy, persuaded them to depart...
...painting bigger, better landscapes, and trying to support his family in the slum-infested fringes of Manhattan by peddling the pictures to framers, Third Avenue junk dealers, and auction houses for a few dollars apiece. Intermittently, his work was exhibited at the National Academy; but conventional critics of the 1870s and '80s did not like the misty, moody landscapes-empty of human life-which Blakelock did best. Storytelling in painting was the fashion...