Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...private persons are not to take over the police function at any time. Every citizen has a great duty to defend orderly process and the law as it stands, changing the law at will as his ideas about his society changes. This is very simple minded and rather 18th century, I'll admit, but no one has demonstrated that an administrative procedure based on mob violence, curbed at intervals by arbitrary police power either in Germany or Russia or Spain is a better system...
...provide music, Hussey asked Britain's Benjamin Britten, composer of dissonant operas (Peter Grimes, Rape of Lucretia), to write a cantata to words from 18th Century Poet Christopher Smart's poem, Rejoice in the Lamb. Composer Michael Tippett wrote a special Fanfare for the occasion, which was considered most impressive when perspiringly played in the church's gallery by -the Northamptonshire Regimental Band...
...counsel. His Andrew Johnson was a passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
...Mann's tolerant, middle-of-the-road approach to man that has infuriated extremists of Right and Left, who have denounced him as a prominent but typical bourgeois. But to Mann, this insult is a compliment, because he believes that it was precisely the bourgeois soil of the 18th and 19th Centuries that nourished the traditions he most admires. Goethe, a dutiful privy councillor of Saxe-Weimar as well as a world poet; Tolstoy, a schoolteaching aristocrat who tried to look like a simple peasant-these men were cradled by the "bourgeois ideal of individual human universality...
...methodical diarist who jotted down thousands of free anthropological notes, the like of which is not to be found elsewhere. "So far as I am aware," says Roberts, "no American or foreign author has ever written with such startling frankness about . . . American women during the last decade of the 18th Century...