Word: 19th
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Rather than concentrate on the romantic period of the late 18th and 19th cenutries, like the usual classical music station, Kagan says WHRB focuses on that great body of "other stuff": chamber music, baroque, pre-baroque and modern classical...
RITA MAE BROWN loves Mark Twain. She says he was American to the marrow, like herself. Somehow Mark Twain's Americanness is more comfortable than Rita Mae Brown's. Back in the 19th century, there was still room for innocence. Now it's a little harder to come by, and most of our attempts take the form of "The Waltons"--self-congratulatory and insipid. Molly Bolt of Rubyfruit Jungle, Brown's previous book, came close. But in Six of One, Brown tackles a much more serious task. Rubyfruit Jungle was a sad-funny autobiographical sketch of a young lesbian growing...
Meyer came home in 29:27, followed by sophomore John Murphy. The final Harvard scorer, Thad McNulty, placed ninth, recording a time of 30:34. Other Crimson entrants, Peter Johnson, Guy McRoskey, John Chafee and John Sneath, ended up 13th, 16th, 18th, and 19th, respectively...
...Lynds' findings was that Munsonians-and by implication, most Americans-were living in two different centuries, desperately trying to adjust to rapid industrialization, yet holding on fiercely to the homespun values of 19th century rural America. Wrote the Lynds: "A citizen has one foot on the relatively solid ground of established institutional habits, and the other foot fast to an escalator erratically moving in several directions at a bewildering variety of speeds." Now a new team of sociologists headed by Theodore Caplow of the University of Virginia has moved in on Muncie to update the Lynds with a study...
Even the lightest children's tales display Singer's sources: the Bible, mystic writings of Jewish cabala, Tolstoy and Chekhov. "I never forget," he maintains, "that I am only a storyteller." This insistence on the unities of plot and form has made Singer the greatest living 19th century writer and perhaps the only Nobel prizewinner with no pretensions whatever. The lively old figure, with eyes the color of the Israeli flag, dressed as for a formal walk on Warsaw's main street in 1928, has become a familiar one to shopkeepers of Manhattan's scruffy West...