Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partisans hark back to the Hasidim (pious ones) who flourished in 18th century Poland. But unlike other modern Hasidic sects-which are devoted to a kind of cheerful mysticism and have no objections to Israel-Teitelbaum's followers are fanatically opposed to most aspects of modern life, including military service, voting, movies and TV, mixed gatherings of men and women. They live in self-imposed ghettos, speak only Yiddish since they consider Hebrew sacred and reserved for prayers. Their opposition to Israel rests on two beliefs: 1) only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state, and any human attempt...
...Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, on the Corso. One picture gallery has long been public, but now on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, between 11 o'clock and noon, visitors are admitted to a whole succession of magnificent rooms in which every perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent witness to the natural expectations of a Doria-Pamphili heir: carved on the base are a bishop's staff...
...libretto, by Italy's Carlo Goldoni, is a typical 18th century spoof of intriguing lovers and amateur scientists, involving a fat and foolish old father who will not let his two daughters marry suitors he disapproves of. When the old man peers through a telescope at the moon and thinks he spots a bevy of handsomely configured nymphs cavorting about in the near nude, one of his prospective sons-in-law feeds him a magic elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really...
Last week's audience applauded Haydn's stargazing to the rafters, and the critics beamed. Nobody seemed to mind that Haydn's outer space was shaped remarkably like an 18th century Viennese drawing room...
...steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete roof was meant to be both elegant and playful. During a rainstorm the extended roof-beam "gargoyle" rainspouts will channel water into the pool in a miniature cascade that any 18th century fancier of gazebos or octagonal summerhouses would have applauded...