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...strong, whose overwhelming support for Lyndon Johnson last year swung Virginia to a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1948. In November the G.O.P. will field the first Negro who has won his party's primary to run for the general assembly since the 1890s...
...centuries, intellectuals functioned usefully as part of establishments, and Coleridge visualized an intellectual caste, which he called clerisy, providing teachers and guides for the nation. Only in the last 100 years did intellectuals (the word became current during the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s) emerge as a separate class and organized opposition. This was made possible in part by the bourgeoisie; while the old aristocracy was insult-proof, the middle class positively begged to be told off. Yet the more the intellectuals criticized their societies, the more they complained that their societies did not appreciate them...
...humor. Conscientious historians like to trace the strips back to Egyptian papyrus, Grecian ceramics, medieval tapestries, or Hogarth's illustrations of 18th century London lowlife; but as a matter of practical fact, the modern comics were not born until the New York newspaper circulation wars of the 1890s, in which crude but funny comics were valued for their hold on readers...
...mused Molly Tweedy Bloom in her celebrated life-affirming soliloquy, which closes James Joyce's Ulysses. Probably the most famous citizen of Gibraltar, fictional or otherwise, Molly today would find the free and easy ways and the regimental glamour of her hot-blooded youth in the 1890s to be vastly changed. On the Spanish side, in the little border towns of La Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment...
...From the 1890s to the 1930s, the Court was so concerned with the welfare of American business that it used the 14th Amendment mainly to protect corporations as "persons," striking down all sorts of state laws regulating business on the grounds that they violated "liberty of contract." New York was forbidden to set a ten-hour day for bakers; out went minimum-wage laws for women...