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...violence form the somber theme of Jazz, but most of the novel consists of riffs and variations. Different voices materialize, sometimes disembodied, sometimes belonging to casual onlookers or to the principal characters themselves. The narrative glides between the present and the past, to the rural Virginia of the 1880s, where Joe and Violet met and from which they eventually migrated to the magical place they call the City...
...middle of the 19th century, Americans thought they had outgrown the past. History was the Old World; America was too young to have a usable past. The great American tradition, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, was to trample on tradition. In the 1880s the house where Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence had become a hot-dog emporium. For most of the 19th century, American history was rarely included in the standard school curriculum...
...idea was too wild -- even for the Wild West. A psychologist in Nevada's state prison system wanted to build a theme park that would represent an 1880s mining camp. As Bill Mace Knapp envisioned it, the place would be old-timey, with a general store, saloon, gold mine and . . . oh, yes, a brothel...
Believers revived the term in modern times as Muslim areas fell under Western control or influence. One of the first to do so was Muhammad Ahmad, the 19th century Mahdi who raised an Islamic insurgency against British colonialism in the Sudan in the 1880s. The Ottoman Turks declared jihad against Britain during World War I. Calls to holy war took on new urgency, and new meaning, with the creation of Israel in 1948. Since then the term has been used -- and abused -- to justify at least three regional wars plus terrorism and murder, not only against infidels but also toward...
...year. But the Americans, at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, pointed out that the new data mean that the seven warmest years since 1880 have all occurred in the past 11 years. On average, the 1980s were about .6 degrees C (1 degrees F) warmer than the 1880s, while 1990 was .7 degrees C (1.25 degrees F) warmer. That may not sound like much, but a mere 5 degrees C (9 degrees F) rise was enough to bring the earth out of the last...