Word: 1890s
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...there was little rejoicing among the whites. For them, Mugabe's victory marked the end of nine decades of privilege and dominion, dating back to the arrival of Cecil Rhodes and the British pioneers in the 1890s. Said a Salisbury secretary: "How can we accept what we have fought against for so long?" Some white Rhodesians talked bitterly of "gapping it"-their Rugby-derived term for emigrating...
...early modernist program as the desire to purify art to flat patches of color on a flat surface. B Gauguin wanted to make vast allegories of human fate; Edvard Munch, in Norway, elaborated an entire structure of symbolism to describe the 1 inner world that Freud, in the 1890s, was beginning to approach through clinical means. Even styles that now seem symbolically neutral could be charged with unexpected meanings...
Strauss: Four Last Songs; Orchestral Songs (Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis conductor, Columbia). The early items included here were written in the 1890s; the famous Four Last Songs, incredibly, date from half a century later, in 1948, when the 84-year-old Strauss roused himself to compose shimmering valedictories to nature, life and in effect to the 19th century. Te Kanawa's singing, with its creamy tones and long, effortlessly soaring phrases, is simply ravishing...
...Prime Minister of Salisbury's biracial government, immediately accepted it, but Mugabe and Nkomo raised a number of objections. The guerrilla leaders were particularly incensed at the idea of asking Zimbabwe's blacks to buy back lands that they believe were stolen by white pioneers in the 1890s...
...Diaghilev was a charlatan, Richard Buckle shows in this exhaustive new biography that he was also a historical necessity. Almost alone, he bridged the old and new centuries. He was at home in the twilight romanticism of the 1890s. But he was also one of the first to recognize the vigorous new iconoclasts, whose art and music would soon sweep away the lingering shades...