Word: 19th
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...self-interest-and a patriotism that sometimes reaches no deeper than symbols. Over the years, peacetime patriotism in the U.S. was expressed as a wealth of other emotions; how Americans feel about America is clearly linked to how they feel about themselves functioning in America. Thus in the 19th century every imaginable interest group claimed superior nativity. Businessmen denounced unionists as alien anarchists; each generation of naturalized immigrants scorned each later wave of "foreigners," notably Roman Catholics, victims of outrageous persecution by the nativist Know-Nothings of the 1850s. Just before the Civil War, slavery apologists attributed to themselves...
...Lords, of course, that laid the basis for British democracy by forcing King John to accept Magna Carta in 1215. In the 14th century the Lords began to share their parliamentary power with the Commons, but it nonetheless managed to remain the dominant house until the 19th century. Three times in the 20th century British governments have significantly changed the Lords. Its power to delay legislation passed by the House of Commons was cut to two years in 1911 and cut again in 1949 to a single year. In 1958 the Tories created life peerages, permitting men and women...
...Union making England and Scotland one nation is dissolved. National Party members number an insignificant 60,000 of Scotland's 4,800,000 inhabitants, but they have doubled in strength each year since 1963. Their growing following is symptomatic of the stirrings within the realm that 19th century English Clergyman-Critic Sydney Smith dismissed contemptuously as "that garret of the earth, that knuckle-end of England, that land of Calvin, oat-cakes and sulphur." After dour decades of stagnation, the Scots are surging forward with a new spirit...
Last week, acting as producer, director, researcher, writer and narrator, Saarinen took her NBC camera team to Concord, Mass., to make a Today-show film on the town's 19th century authors. After poring over encyclopaedias, biographies and the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott, she spent one afternoon tramping around the countryside, across the graveyards and through the centuries-old houses. Then she retreated to her hotel room to write her script and fill the margins with meticulous directions for the cameraman...
Front teeth newly recapped and visible behind a more or less constant smile, Frank Sinatra, 51, returned to the sidewalks of New York as . . . as a cop, for goodness' sake. All just pretend, of course, as affable Frank lazed around the 19th Precinct station house in pursuit of the title role of a movie called The Detective. Sinatra also made his first appearance as chairman of the American Italian Anti-Defamation League, which seeks to remove the stigma of gangsterism from the land that produced Dante, Michelangelo, Columbus, Mussolini and Capone. Nearly 20,000 fans turned out at Madison...