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Something must be done to make this university administration as well as students aware of the fact that Radcliffe has not been the "Harvard Annex" since the late 1880s. The disregard, disrespect, and offhandedness which anyone living at Radcliffe experiences each day is enough to make any rational individual very irrational very quickly. The prevailing attitude about Radcliffe and its residents may not at first be apparent to the untrained eye or ear, but the tone of it has already become unbearable in the opening weeks of this semester...
Even in painting, the traditional assurance was flickering out by the 1880s. One scroll by Yokoyama Taikan (1868-1958), of a cataract thundering vertically into a gorge, has a real sense of sublimity-a white blade of water dividing the black walls of rock. But in general it is clear that in the expressive Chinese phrase, the "mandate of heaven" had been withdrawn from most traditional-style Japanese painting by the turn of the century. No matter; the viewer goes to this show for its older works, and they are superb...
...Pipes bolsters his conservative universe by revealing the failure of the peasants, "those acquisitive little beasts," as a revolutionary force, then his demonstration of how the radical intelligentsia brought about its own demise in the 1880s is the historian's greatest coup. The radicals, fired by the same Western ideas of service to the state that Peter the Great had had a century before and that the Bolsheviks were to have two decades later, tried to revolutionize the state. According to Pipes, police repression was inevitable from the moment the radicals tried to extricate themselves from the entire...
...ACTION TAKES place in Bulgaria in the mid-1880s where the countrymen are defending themselves against the Servians. A Swiss mercenary who is employed by the Servians, Bluntschli, becomes for Raina her "chocolate cream soldier" by virtue of the moonlight encounter in which he reveals his fondness for food over bullets. Her fiance Sergius, Raina figures, is much braver than the smooth-talking Swiss, but only in the last five minutes of the play does the better...
...well it trained my eye." In fact, as Art Historian Grace Seiberling points out in her excellent catalogue essay, Monet both cultivated and violated the myth of impressionism. From the garden scenes at Argenteuil in the 1870s, through the cliffs and seascapes of Étretat and BelleIsle in the 1880s to the blue watery cathedrals he made from his lily pond at Giverny, Monet constantly reworked his paintings in the studio. "Whether my cathedrals, my Londons and other paintings were made from nature or not is nobody's business and is not important," he wrote to his dealer...