Word: 1880s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WASHING OF THE SPEARS, by Donald R. Morris. This massive history of the Zulu nation highlights two chieftains: Shaka, whose wars of conquest depopulated much of southern Africa, allowing the Boers and British to move in, and his grandson Cetshwayo, who won many battles against British armies of the 1880s but lost the war and the land...
...their seats by police when other efforts to eject them failed. In an attempt to make debate more seemly, Speakers of the past have banned "grossly insulting language" and the use of such words as villain, hypocrite, murderer, insulting dog, swine, Pecksniffian cant, cheat, stoolpigeon and bastard. In the 1880s, one Charles Bradlaugh was refused his seat because he was an avowed atheist. When Bradlaugh tried to take it anyway, he battled ten Bobbies to a draw until he fainted from his exertions...
...figures out of burlap and metal that are raucous commentaries on the self-pride of mankind. Richard A. Miller, 42, casts a conventional bronze nude. But he does it three times in the exquisite feminine gait clearly following Eadweard Muybridge's sequence photo experiments of the 1880s of a walking nude. Frank Gallo, 31, scoops up plastic like ice cream and molds a life-sized nude slouched in a cantilevered sling chair as if she were left over from last night's orgy. Ideal for a living room...
Best Remembered. She was not a failure in Europe. Starting in the 1880s, she spent nearly all her time abroad, ostensibly for her husband's health (he was a neurasthenic). Her idol was Henry James, and of the famous people she met, he is the one she remembered best -the one with whom, as James put it, she was "more and more never apart." Intentionally or not, she makes him out to be a buffoon. He was so convinced of his own poverty, she recalls, that when guests visited him at his home outside London, "the dreary pudding...
...Distant Trumpet is a far cry from the grand old westerns of yesterday. Taken from Paul Morgan's engrossing historical novel, which told how U.S. cavalrymen in the 1880s subdued one of the last powerful Apache chiefs, the movie plays down the drama of the great Southwest, plays up three bright young faces from Beverly Hills. All that fuss about redskins seems picayune compared with the plight of Lieut. Troy Donahue. Setting femmes aflutter at Fort Delivery, Ariz., Troy bestrides a flesh-and-blood horse, but his acting is appropriately wooden. He is an animated Ken doll with golden...