Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scandals involving medal peddling erupted throughout the 19th century. Premier Maurice Rouvier in 1887 even gave the husband of his mistress the Legion of Honor, presumably for the services eminents he had rendered the chief of government by his complaisance...
...Though often compared to the 19th century Austrian statesman Klemens Metternich, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger claims to have other idols. "I think Metternich was an extremely skilled diplomat, but not very creative," said Kissinger to the Washington Star. "I hope to have constructed more than he had. He was a skillful manipulator of events that he didn't help shape." And who have been the great men of modern times? "De Gaulle was a great figure," answered the Secretary...
Even as late as the 19th century, Crichton says, physicians were writing with strength and conviction. Now, however, "voices are passive, modifiers are abstract and qualifying clauses abound. The general tone is one of utmost timidity, going far beyond sensible caution." Crichton finds it all very puzzling. "An eminent surgeon strides purposefully into the operating room each day," he says, "but to read his papers, you wonder how he finds the courage to get out of bed in the morning." Crichton has a theory about the use of obfuscating medical language. In explaining it, however, he unwittingly demonstrates that jargon...
Cockroach Milk. When Russia burst triumphantly into literary history in the 19th century, it was hardly surprising that most of her great writers were steeped in folklore. "Each one is a poem!" said Pushkin, who, like Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, used folk tales as vital elements in his work. The selection of folk tales in this English volume was made from Alexander Afanasev's classic mid-19th century collection. First published in the U.S. 30 years ago, the book has now been reprinted under the somewhat misleading rubric Russian Fairy Tales. Actually, the stories include animal fables and laconic...
...from Outer Space were foreseen by H.G. Wells and others. What has changed is the technology that transmits the frisson. The shudders that came in books now emanate from screens. But the stories are essentially Victorian or gothic. Lon Chancy dominated the horror market of the '20s playing 19th century monsters like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera. Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, the superstars of horror in the '30s, won their fame as Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula. King Kong was in effect Frankenstein's monster in a body...