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...From the 18th century on, however, various thinkers developed a bill of complaints about substitution, although few wanted to abandon it totally. To some Americans, Calvin's angry, all-powerful God was too reminiscent of the arbitrary tyrant by whose overthrow the country had defined itself. In an age when Thomas Jefferson was literally cutting out all references to miracles from his copy of the Bible, substitution's supernatural structure perturbed some Enlightenment rationalists. Its scant room for human volition contradicted a growing 18th and 19th century optimism that the species could perfect itself through its own efforts...
...Crimson now has two weeks to practice before the team travels to Trenton, N.J. to compete in the Ivy Championships from April 16th to April 18th...
...might expect from a scholar who has written wittily on Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti's obsession with the Australian wombat, Trumble saves much of his best material for the story's marginalia. There are the early 18th century "gurning" competitions of York- shire ("The frightfull'st grinner/ Be the winner") and the various cosmetic condiments that have accompanied the smile over the years, from the 18th century English vogue for wearing mouse-skin eyebrows, to the Japanese tooth-blackening practice of ohaguro. How the author manages to connect the 16th century European habit of dog turd-throwing, Dutch painting...
...sweeping retrospective of her work. The 15-week exhibit, the largest the V&A has ever devoted to a British designer, features more than 150 of Westwood's designs, including clothing she created for the Sex Pistols in the 1970s and a 1996 ball gown inspired by an 18th century Watteau painting. From punk to parasols, Westwood's done...
...veranda overlooking the harbor and yacht-watch, or enjoy the views of Paradise Island just across the water. But if you've worked up an appetite climbing the 65 steps of Nassau's Queen's Staircase (carved out of limestone by slaves at the end of the 18th century to mark 65 years of Queen Victoria's reign), browsing its famous Straw Market or just lazing around on the beach, you may find the fritters taste best at a market stall where the dollops of batter are dropped into sizzling oil in front of your eyes ($2). You'll risk...