Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accompanying an illustration of his new china, Russel Wright is quoted (TIME, July 29) as saying: "[I] want to do something practical for the housewife. The 18th Century is kept alive by Emily Post. I have no sympathy with the idea of keeping traditional design alive...
...together for the National Gallery as an enormous Index of American Design, which artists and manufacturers can study in one place instead of seeking out the scattered originals, it makes a file of about 22,000 pencil and watercolor copies of 17th, 18th and 19th Century homemade art. Some of the collection has been seen before (notably at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum); other parts will eventually be reproduced in a companion volume to the National Gallery's Masterpieces...
Never forgetting that they were a defeated group, they had fanatically defended their right for 200 years to speak their own language, to keep from being absorbed by English Canada. They felt no ties for either France (the France they remembered was that of the 18th Century) or Britain. And when English Canada, feeling those ties in the war, had tried to conscript the French Canadians to fight abroad, there had been riots and bitterness...
Although the Classic has always been a jinx for champion three-year-olds (it was for Whirlaway, Johnstown, Bimelech and Twenty Grand) the finally convinced bettors made Assault a 7-to-10 favorite for last week's 18th running of the mile-and-a-quarter stakes. The only real point to the race seemed to be whether he was a great horse, or only a good one in a bad year. Assault's Trainer Max Hirsch wondered whether the other horses were good enough to give Assault a race...
...aphorist and editor of parts, Cyril Connolly is the latest fashion in bitter elegance in English letters, as his friend George Orwell is the latest fashion in common sense. Connolly's touch of Irish divination and curiosity has given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...