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...Whenever we think about how China's rise is sending shock waves through the international order, we should remember that this has happened before. From the 1890s to the 1910s, a continent-sized country was ascending. It claimed to hate imperialism yet wasn't above extending its control over territory. It had a tendency to go it alone, and made other powers nervous. That country was the U.S. (See pictures of China...
...immaculately tended historic garden, which combines English and Italian landscape designs, and a working farm, which continues to produce wine and olive oil. The entrance is preceded by a long cypress avenue which ends in a small garden leading up to the magnificent Tuscan villa. As early as the 1910s, Berenson had made clear his desire to leave his house, library, and collection to Harvard, which he credited with opening intellectual doors to him as a penniless immigrant. Berenson reaffirmed this wish in the printed report of the 50th anniversary of the Class of 1887. The Center for Italian Renaissance...
They did it to annoy, of course, but for them subversion was something new. It was about their own personalities, what they felt was right about the burgeoning, professionalized art world that they encountered in the 1910s, and what was uncomfortable about it. Although outrageously ambitious intellectually, they were rather modest in their output. And if they were the forerunners of artistic cool, they didn't have the iron-hard celebrity gloss that we now associate with successful art. The fun of this exhibition is the evidence of a whole culture or philosophy gradually building up, more or less...
During the Gilded Age this began to change. Americans increasingly traveled to Europe, where they quickly noticed the longstanding practice of tipping. Hoping to appear cosmopolitan, wealthy travelers brought back the custom. The fad quickly took hold. In the 1910s, more than 10 percent of the labor force accepted tips for their services...
...generation, is very different than your generation’s experience. The second layer builds on the first layer.” But Reddi reminded the audience that the wave of immigration in the 1970s was not the first to hit America. According to Reddi, in the 1910s and 1920s a smaller number of mostly Punjabi immigrants moved to California to become farmers. “That generation is virtually ignored,” Reddi said. “And what they did for the country in terms of the desert land they made fertile is tremendous...