Word: 18th
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Thus, radical history is necessarily the history of our problems, and our foolishness and our enigma. It is, in historical terms, the history of an emergent people who freed, by and large, from 18th century shackles of thought and polity, wandered into a new continent and found some new spiritual and social constricts. The shackles that we have acquired, indeed, are twentieth century ones that we have bred quite apart from Europe, and to which, ironically, European philosophers have addressed themselves in the twentieth century...
...SERENATA NOTTURNA, K. 239 (Argo). One of the world's best new chamber orchestras is the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, which took its name from the old London church where it made its debut a decade ago. With Concertmaster Neville Marriner directing in 18th century style from the first desk, the 16-man ensemble achieves a dramatic precision that would do credit to Toscanini. The three Divertimenti for strings, written when Mozart was 16, are stunning miniatures in Italian rococo symphonic style. The Serenata Notturna, scored for two small orchestras plus timpani, also sparkles with classical...
...Then, of course, there is the whole mystique of style. Most congenial to the eyes of modern collectors is the gracefully severe Queen Anne style, which was developed by French Huguenots who fled across the Channel to England to escape religious persecution in 1685. The rococo elegance of mid-18th century English designers like Paul de Lamerie has an extravagant appeal of its own. The robust baroque styles of the 17th century are rarer, but in some ways the most memorable of all. Last November, two James II tankards, delicately chased with drawings of posturing Chinese potentates, fetched...
...Exhibitionist. Director Elliott, 44, who took over when Charles Cunningham moved on to the Art Institute of Chicago three years ago, is proud of the basic collection for which the museum is famed-a small but distinguished selection of baroque paintings, classical bronzes, Meissen porcelain, 17th and 18th century furniture, antique firearms. But even before the shutdown, he set energetically to work to bring the Atheneum more up to date in art history. Conspicuously displayed in the new galleries and elsewhere were some of his acquisitions: Tony Smith's Amaryllis, Cezanne's Portrait of a Child, an important...
Once inside, the visitors see soaring public spaces as stunning and vast as any Piranesi conceived in his 18th century etchings. Two tremendous lobbies serve as civic areas capable of holding crowds of sit-ins or celebrators. A magnificent ceremonial flight of stairs leads, like a cascade of red Boston brick, from one lobby up to a huge city council chamber and the mayor's offices...