Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jaipur put on a good show. For the first post-independence session of the All-India Congress he sponsored a rousing parade down the main streets of Jaipur city. First came three silver-spangled elephants from the princely stables (see cut), followed by seven camel warriors armed with 18th Century blunderbusses. Then came a mile-long procession of boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks with green...
...than they do of Rousseau. Students who learn of Diderot in college are apt to classify him as one of the great French Encyclopedists, learn too little of his novels, plays and essays. If they remembered him at all it was as a minor beam in France's 18th Century age of enlightenment. Last week, Denis Diderot was having his innings...
Imperfect Echo. To most citizens (and to many of the electors themselves) the whole archaic process seemed as absurd and awkward as starting a jet engine with an 18th Century flint and steel...
Marsh records Manhattan in the lusty, busty style that Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson used to capture 18th Century London. He lacks Rowlandson's genius for caricature, but in draftsmanship, technical skill and honesty of observation Marsh is easily his peer...
Nicholas Van Slyck directed the 15-piece Harvard Chamber Orchestra in a score he wrote for the Idler production. Mr. Van Slyck said his music was "built upon 18th Century patterns but lies solidly in the 20th Century harmonically and instrumentally." It seems to have made the transition with more case than Mr. Congreve's play but like it was very gay and spirited. The music is by no means an incidental part of the Idler production, and combined with the lively acting of the Idlers, should give an amusing and interesting evening's experience to anyone who drops around...