Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is, however, no Giselle. "You'd be surprised how many people feel that because we're not doing Swan Lake that we are not a classical company," Mitchell told TIME'S Rosemarie Tauris. "We don't have enough people or finances to do big 19th century ballets. D.T.H. is not about to do an anemic, rundown Swan Lake; anyway, it's a contemporary company...
...status within the universities. They are, in fact, gaining it as they move from training for the ministry toward academic study about religion. This swing to "religious studies,'' the report states, is the biggest change in religious higher education since separate divinity schools arose early in the 19th century...
...that sense, Cornell's work is very much part of the history of surrealism. It grows from the same stem: a fascination with dreams, nuances, fugitive image-clusters, arcane fragments of memory and culture-an outgrowth of romanticism that, by the end of the 19th century, had accumulated a formidable literature. Cornell, who worshiped Mallarmé for his exactitude of feeling, was the last symbolist poet-a pretty symmetry, for the symbolists were much inspired by another American, Edgar Allan...
...dazzling volume of verse called Personae (Masks) abruptly forced serious consideration of the upstart's mission: to drag poetry out of the 19th century and into the 20th. Poetry, Pound insisted, must have the virtues of good prose. "No book words, no straddled adjectives ('addled mosses dank'), no Tennysonianness . . . nothing you couldn't. in the stress of some emotion, actually...
...similarly, "special interests," like farmers and government workers, could have subsidies and increasing absolute shares of national income. In this way, hedonism, the villain of Bell's analysis, was defused as a political danger and displaced into the harmless arena of culture, which it has dominated since the late 19th century. The anti-capitalism of American avant-garde artists, writers, intellectuals and even Greenwich Village is a result of the individual's refusal to subordinate the myth of liberalism--the individual's total freedom--to the Protestant ethic of the unfree work-place...