Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best Straussiana-the original sheet music of his waltzes-Vienna did not get. For years a rich Viennese railroad man, Paul Lowenberg, collected scores not only of Johann Strauss but of other 19th-Century waltz-men-Strauss's father Johann, his father's teacher and rival Joseph Lanner, his brothers Joseph and Eduard Strauss. Collector Lowenberg acquired 1,644 pieces of music. His family, on their uppers just after Anschluss, looked for a purchaser for the collection, found one in the U. S. Library of Congress. According to Dr. Karol Liszniewski, Cincinnati musician who arranged the deal...
Long considered an isolated figure in art, an independent who withdrew from the life and thought of his time to paint creepy, imaginary worlds, Odilon Redon (1840-1916) is often classed by critics with the 19th-Century romantics; surrealists claim him as a pre-surrealist. In his melancholy youth Redon had tried architecture, sculpture, studying the old masters, imitating the Barbizon landscapists, copying the romantics. As far as he was concerned, nothing seemed to click. Then, one day, in 1875, he found that charcoal was his meat. From charcoal drawings he went on to lithography. It had taken...
...Once again Colonel Stimson tried to rally Britain by suggesting that the Nine-Power Treaty, guaranteeing the territorial integrity of China, which Japan had signed at Washington in 1922, be invoked. Once again Sir John Simon turned his back. The Japanese, undisturbed, made mince meat of the heroic Chinese 19th Route Army...
...network heard a radio drama whose acts were divided, not with the usual fading and swelling of music, but with a rumbling sound as of an oldtime curtain going up & down. The play was The Minute Men of 1774-5, by James A. Herne, 19th Century playwright, father of Actresses Julie and Chrystal Herne. NBC's actors carefully did not burlesque this story of Minute Man Reuben Foxglove's beauteous ward, Dorothy, who turned out to be the long-lost daughter of a British noble, and for whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied...
Second Division. After the first division between laymen and churchmen over Darwin came a second division between scientists who did not question that evolution was a fact. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection declined in scientific favor. This "eclipse of Darwinism" began in the 19th Century, reached into the 20th. The tendency was to doubt that natural selection-the slow combing out and accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about...