Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of ailing Red Boss Maurice Thorez and herself Communist candidate for the National Assembly, spoke with passion for two hours. She railed against "capitalist exploiters," but her words fell on a lethargic gathering of scarcely 30 people, even though she was speaking in the grimy 18th arrondissement, the reddest of the Red districts of Paris. In tiny Ecurie (pop. 362), only 15 men and a runny-nosed boy turned out to hear Socialist Guy Mollet review his premiership, blame "the Americans" for preventing the Anglo-French conquest of Suez. Were any problems bothering his listeners...
...credit for digging it up belongs to Conductor-Musicologist Newell Jenkins. 43, who has long had a passion for unearthing little-known works of the 18th century. Last season Jenkins launched a series of what he called Clarion Concerts at which he presented the fruits of a dusty three-year search through the libraries and conservatories of Europe. To Jenkins' own surprise, Clarion Concerts was a rousing success at the box office. Before Jenkins gets through, his subscription audience will have encountered such obscure 18th century composers as Franz Anton Rossler, The Chevalier de Saint-George and Francesco Antonio...
Nkrumah had the votes to have his way, and the power to enforce it, and plainly intended to continue de-stooling chiefs and deporting opponents. Like the soldiers who have lately taken power all over Southeast Asia, Nkrumah, no soldier, argues that the classic restraints of 18th century constitutional liberalism do not fit the situation he confronts. But on him-and on them-rests the burden of proof that backward steps will result in greater steps forward...
Marlborough's Duchess, by Louis Kronenberger. A polished biography of an un cut gem of a woman, Sir Winston's ancestress, Sarah Churchill, who helped make the 18th century glitter...
...Here you are," Vicomte de Valmont, the roué hero of an 18th century novel, chimed in benignly...