Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...origin dates back to 1929, when Historians Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch founded a scholarly review in Paris called the Annales (Annals). Its tone was combative, its fervor evangelical. Its purpose: to debunk the chronicling of politics and biographies of great men that had obsessed historians since the 19th century. Let there be new approaches, Febvre exhorted, ranging from aerial photography to the study of climates...
WATERGATE LEAK. In the 19th century U.S. Supreme Court Justices talked openly about impending decisions, but in recent years the court has shrouded its decision-making process with an almost impenetrable secrecy. The purpose, its members say, is to encourage a frank and free interchange of ideas. Even staff members are barred from the Justices' conferences. So there was considerable embarrassment inside the pillared courthouse after National Public Radio Correspondent Nina Totenberg, 33, revealed that the court had tentatively decided, 5 to 3, to reject Watergate cover-up-conviction petitions filed by John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell...
...phrase has a reassuring ring, evoking images of leather upholstery, briar pipes, glasses of sherry, and urbane diplomats about to decide the fate of the world without undue interference from press or public. Those days are long gone, of course, but Jimmy Carter is taking a kind of subdued, 19th century approach to his two-day meeting with the leaders of Britain, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan and Canada. He plans to listen and learn, and not press too hard for U.S. policies. No one expects great decisions to be made. At best the negotiators may agree to cooperate...
Novelists are becoming steadily less audacious. Unlike their 19th century forebears, they rarely offer themselves as omniscient puppetmasters, privy to the thoughts and motives of an entire cast. Attuned to the jet hops of the screen-so the conventional reasoning goes-audiences will shun the long ocean cruises that fiction once traversed. Thus the fragments of 20th century life are all too often rendered in views, not visions...
...such misalliances were frequently provided with preternatural or otherwise spooky talents. Hester Prynne, for example, was unsettled by the prescience of her illegitimate daughter Pearl in The Scarlet Letter. Similarly, Ida frets naively about Giuseppe's intense otherworldliness. Morante's symbolism is rarely more modern than the 19th century. Ida's greatest fear is that people will learn she is half Jewish-and the mother of a bastard. Ignorant of these facts, her son Antonio brings home the stray dog Blitz, and proudly announces that it is "a bastard" with a star mark on its chest...