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Houssaye gave the book, printed in the 1880s, to his friend, Dr. Bouland. The doctor, who had the book rebound, included a note expressing his belief that “a book on the human soul merited that it was given a human skin...
Baring it all used to be a routine part of orientation. Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the University required new students to pose nude for “posture pictures” as part of the regular heath exam. Of the approximately 3,500 subjects who stripped down for the camera, those deemed to have poor posture were required to take a corrective health class, the New York Times Magazine reported in 1995. W.H. Sheldon, a Columbia University physique scholar, had sold the idea of “posture pictures” to all the Ivy League colleges. Sheldon...
...that Beijing allows only 20 foreign films to be shown in the country each year. Disney on Ice has been performed in Beijing, Guangzhou and other cities since 1996. The company is even developing a new live-action film reminiscent of Snow White in which a young woman in 1880s China is protected by seven Shaolin fighting monks instead of the familiar Happy, Dopey...
Between his professional flowering in the 1880s and his death in 1907, Saint-Gaudens was seen as proof that America could produce art--an ability that, his patrons felt, went hand in hand with the triumph of the industrial Northeast after the Civil War. He gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude. If there was such a thing as the American Renaissance, then Saint-Gaudens embodied it in sculpture, as surely as the Roeblings did in engineering, Louis Comfort Tiffany in dcor or McKim, Mead and White...
Immortalized on jukeboxes in a thousand honky-tonks, California's Folsom Prison is one of the U.S.'s best-known penitentiaries, and one of its worst. Hewn from local granite at the base of the Sierra foothills northeast of Sacramento, Folsom dates back to the 1880s and for decades has been a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, as its population has swelled to 70% more than capacity and the rate of violent acts nearly tripled. This year three inmates have been killed and 130 others stabbed in unmanageable violence that...