Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rutgers English Professor Frederick T. McGill has given the pedagogical lie to hippiedom's worshipful identification with 19th century Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was no "true hippie," said the prof, because his rejection of society was really a matter of "giving up what he desired least in order to leave time and a little money for the essentials." And these essentials, McGill added, did not include blowing his cerebrum. "Thoreau said morning air was his chief intoxicant," lectured McGill. "He undoubtedly would have rejected artificial stimulants and the use of mind-expanding drugs...
WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. A biography of the 19th century English artist who excelled as a poet, philosopher, painter, architect and interior decorator...
...draftdeferred protester whose actions were not in the "national interest." The Justice Department, all too aware in 20th century terms of the legal trouble "delinquents" and their families could make, held that so clearly punitive a process seemed to be indefensible under the First Amendment. Hershey, however, is a 19th century man, unread in constitutional law but totally committed to what used to be called Americanism...
There are 66 of the miniatures, dating from the 16th through the 19th centuries. They belong to the genre of Ragamala paintings, each delicately drawn and daringly colored to illustrate the moods and scenes of classical Indian music, the Raga. Ravi Shankar and the Beatles provide an appropriately vivid background...
...misnamed, for it is made of graphite, a crystalline form of carbon having a greasy texture." It is also a slippery instrument in the hands of those who take drawing as lightly as it is taken today. Drawing has had its great days-the Renaissance, the 18th and 19th centuries -but it is impossible to doubt that the pop art of, say, Roy Lichtenstein (b. 1923) represents anything but a descent from the anonymous caveman who drew bison and deer with a masterly hand perhaps 15,000 years...