Word: 18th
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...musical, based on Voltaire's novel, retains the other-worldly quality of the original, though in this musical adaptation its exoticism becomes laughable. The Spanish (or any of their colonies) seem to live, love, and scheme to the strains of a tango; all of Paris, even in the 18th century, spontaneously erupts into waltzing...
until March 18th...
When he was 18 and at Yale, the Connecticut drinking age was still 18. The states had received the power to set their own laws with respect to intoxicating liquors from the 22nd Amendment, which was enacted in 1933 in order to repeal the 18th [prohibition] Amendment of 1919. Eighteen made for a sensible age then, and was even more coherent with government policy when the 26th amendment, which guarantees 18-year-olds the right to vote, passed...
Solomon, a musicologist who wrote a splendid biography of Beethoven in 1977, relates these and a host of other incidents smoothly and seamlessly, providing us with just enough of the details of court protocol, carriage rides and commissions that make the late 18th century so exotic. Mozart and the members of his circle come vividly alive-not only his father and remote, tragic mother, but also Constanze, his flighty, second-choice wife who turned professional widow (and mythmaker) after his death; and his cousin Basle, with whom he not only exchanged famously scatological letters but also, Solomon suggests, enjoyed active...
...third of America's PC penetration. Government controls and low consumer consciousness, however, remain bigger problems than access. Most CD-ROM drives are made in Asia, for example, yet two-thirds of installed CD-ROM units are in America. Japan, a nation of superb hardware innovators, is ranked only 18th in the world in terms of PCs -- largely because there is not much to connect with in Japan. Japan is also far behind the U.S. in hooking computers together in networks, although that business started to take off in 1994 as fledgling on-line services like Niftyserve, as well...