Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tree and vows, "I'll never come down again!" And he doesn't-for more than half a century. The area around the little north Italian town of Ombrosa is so heavily forested that he can travel for miles swinging from tree to tree like an 18th century Tarzan. He builds tree houses and shoots game. He climbs down to a low branch to milk a complacent goat, trains a hen to lay in a convenient place. A limb overhanging a swift-running stream makes an excellent toilet...
Mary Shelley came by her headstrong ways naturally. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a brilliant champion of women's rights and social revolution. Her father, William Godwin, was also one of the morning stars of reason and reform in the last years of the 18th century. Both advocated free love and reluctantly ignored their teaching to marry just five months before their daughter's birth. Yet from the day of her elopement, Mary Shelley suffered continual persecution not only from Shelley's family, but also from her own father, whose contempt for convention stopped abruptly...
...more than U.S. readers. At the Louisiana State University Press last week, able young (35) Director Donald R. Ellegood, who worked at Oklahoma under Savoie Lottinville, was busy culling a list of some 350 manuscripts that includes something for everyone: biographies of Confederate generals, an eyewitness account of the 18th century Haitian revolution, the secrets of modern hurricane forecasting. Other university presses are ready this fall with a list of impressive books that might never see print without university backing. Harvard University Press (over 100 titles last year) is bringing out the first of four volumes of John Adams...
With nothing but its exterior shell unchanged, Boylston will be a unique synthesis of old and new at Harvard. The outside is in the style of 18th century architecture, the inside newer than Quincy House...
...Champs Elysees to see the latest movie by Director Roger (And God Created Woman) Vadim, the man who virtually invented Brigitte Bardot. Forgetting France's reputation for tolerance, half the Cabinet had insisted on seeing, and in effect censoring, Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Affairs), based on an 18th century classic novel about what might be called advanced sex education. The frank and cynical description of the affairs of two wideranging lovers-aided by a camera so candid that it sometimes even peeped under the bed sheets-was carefully edited before it won a permit "for adults only." For French...