Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comings as Hicks House. Far from gathering dust and receiving little attention save that of baedekering schoolmarms, this old Cambridge landmark is functioning today as a comfortable and busy library for members of Kirkland House. In the very place where idle upperclassmen now lounge in the midst of an 18th century philosophy collection," a forebearer of the Hicks family once slipped out of a winter's night to dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor; in the midst of what is now the renaissance collection, General Washington planned the abortive attempt to bottle up English forces in New England...
Sensorialists, however, claim that sex should have emotional justification, and therefore they preach "multiple love" instead of "free love." They claim that jealousy and possessiveness are sins; that marriage is enslavement; that fidelity is a mistake but constancy a good thing. The great idol of the Sensorialists is that 18th Century pervert and jailbird, the Marquis de Sade. Leader LeGrand is writing five autobiographical novels, called Journal de Jacques, one of which has been published, and is readying a Sensorialist play for production next month...
Kreisler: Concerto in C in the style of Vivaldi (Fritz Kreisler, with the Victor String Orchestra, Donald Voorhees conducting; Victor, 4 sides). For 30 years Fiddler Kreisler credited this lyrical score to the 18th Century composer Vivaldi, but finally admitted writing it himself. Performance: good...
...largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk, swimming pool, tennis courts and an old fashioned water wheel. The American Guide Series describes the house as having the "regal air of an 18th Century chateau...
Officers who are interested are requested by the Navy Department to communicate directly with the Director of Naval Reserve, Headquarters, first Naval District, 150 Causway Street, Boston 14. Applications are requested prior to the 18th of November...