Word: 18th
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...happens, homeopathy was born out of frustration with mainstream medicine as it was practiced in the late 18th century. It was founded by Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who was horrified by such standard therapies of his day as bloodletting, purging and blistering. Hahnemann eventually abandoned his medical practice and started looking for safer ways to treat patients. One of his investigations focused on quinine, then (and now) the treatment of choice for malaria. Though he was healthy, Hahnemann dosed himself with the drug and observed that he experienced the same fevers and chills that characterize the disease...
...over time. Reno is still the kind of city where the railroad tracks run right through the middle of downtown, no matter how many welcome bowlers go up outside the Reno Turf Club. But for Pearson on a recent Saturday, what he sees as he looks down on the 18th annual Reno Nisei Invitational is good news enough: 80 clean, well-lit, smoke-free lanes, and several hundred happy, busy, free-spending bowlers. He's a man with a mission. "It's going to take me a lot of years, maybe more than I have,'' he says. "But I think...
Charles Krauthammer is living in the 18th century. In "Why We Must Contain China" [ESSAY, July 31], he talks about "renewing the U.S.-Japan alliance" to safeguard our Pacific security. What Pacific security? The Vietnam War was fought, in the Krauthammerian sense, to contain China. We still haven't quite recovered from it, emotionally or financially. And now must we rush into the arms of our former enemies, Japan and Vietnam, as Krauthammer proposes, to contain ''the emerging giant of the 21st century"? I am all for pressuring China to liberalize its stance on human rights and other issues...
...worse). At Glimmerglass, British director Jonathan Miller and set designer John Conklin play it sumptuously straight. On a richly lighted stage dominated by an enormous sliding screen of gold, extravagantly costumed singers enact the intrigues of the despot's court with the stylized poise and dignity of figures in 18th century European Orientalist paintings...
AFTER BENJAMIN WEST IN THE 18th century, James McNeill Whistler was the first American artist to become really famous across the Atlantic: not only in London, like West, but in Paris as well. Since America loves to see its children imposing themselves on the world's culture--a less common sight 100 years ago than now--this perpetual expatriate, with his viperish tongue, large ego and delicately nuanced paintings, has long been an American favorite...