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...public employees will be facing pink slips should-they dare to ask for more money (money Reagan must use to bloat the defense budget and the safes of oil companies), and with that precedent, it will soon be private-sector employees accused of tampering with national security. Hello, 1890s...
Once upon a summer's morning, on the stage of the Opera House at Rockport, Me., a lanky bearded man in striped shirt and suspenders, looking as if he were off a potato farm, sits on a piano bench beneath an 1890s-style white-and-gilt proscenium arch. At the First Annual North Atlantic Festival of Storytelling, Michael Parents is speaking of creation...
...similar classified ads carried weekly by more than 100 specialized newsletters, the message signals to a dedicated legion of supermarket shoppers that essentially the advertiser wants to trade 20 refund forms. While couponing and refunding are hardly new-one of the first cents-off offers was devised in the 1890s by C.W. Post to perk up sales of Postum-they have accelerated in recent years at what might be called a rapid clip. With inflation grabbing from household budgets, those cents-off coupons and money-back refund offers have become more than an appealing way of stretching the food dollar...
...work of "these chemists who pile up little dots," as Gauguin contemptuously named the pointillists, was to the 1890s what constructivism would be to the 1920s: the house style of Utopian socialism in its various forms. Pissarro was a fervent anarchist, and his dot-crusted scenes of idyllic rural labor (as stylized and unreal, in some ways, as any 18th century pastoral) are attempts, not always successful, to convey an ideal vision of social dignity based on freely shared work. In this he was the heir of Millet as well-though he certainly did not know peasant life as Millet...
When the Ed School was founded in the 1890s, it primarily served to upgrade the quality of education at elite private schools that sent their graduates to Harvard. In the 1930s, the focus shifted to stressing improvement of suburban public schools. In the 1960s, the Ed School worked to alleviate the social and urban problems of the United States through education. At that time, budget cuts forced the school to eliminate many of the basic programs designed to teach teachers how to organize and run a classroom. The Ed School then began to concentrate on post-secondary education, research...