Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue includes an essay by Holton titled "Einstein and the Cultural Roots of Modern Science," which explores the way Einstein's theories were shaped by the "cultural soil" of the 19th century. The essay is an extended version of Holton's 1997 Robert and Maurine Rothschild Distinguished Lecture in the History of Science, an annual lecture organized by the Department of History of Science...
...employ a tired idiom, a picture's worth a thousand words, and Salts Restaurant boasts a picture that perfectly encapsulates its essence. Hanging on the warm, yellow stuccoed walls is a small painting of a woman, muted by broad impressionistic brushstrokes. Rather than sitting demurely at a picnic in 19th century Paris, however, the lady is dressed stylishly in black, perched on an elegant futon. She has a telephone cradled in one hand and a cigarette dangling from the other. The image is a perfect one for Salts, a place where haute-bourgeois society meets its modern yuppie analog...
...professor removes his tweed jacket, hangs it on the back of a chair and prepares to teach what is widely acknowledged to be unteachable. Things are going well for him. His big new novel, Cloudsplitter (HarperCollins; 758 pages; $27.50), about the raging, God-haunted 19th century abolitionist John Brown, is about to hit the bookstores, and he has learned this very day that director Atom Egoyan's movie of his novel The Sweet Hereafter has earned two Academy Award nominations. Another film, drawn from his novel Affliction and starring Nick Nolte, is ready for distribution. He smiles. Equal to equal...
...samurai, world traveller, Lensky was named for the romantic poet of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" who is killed in a duel with the novel's title character. Lensky himself never led the romantic life that his namesake fancy, but he did exhibit the feeling of modish spleen of the 19th-century aristocratic like the characters in Pushkin's novel. Lensky could always be found languoring in his bowl, not doing much of anything, a bored, flat expression on his face...
...Francisco, who had scored her 19th goal of the season in the third period against Dartmouth, simultaneously broke a record and kept Harvard's playoff hopes intact against B.C. Francisco scored two goals and assisted on two more to pace the Crimson to a 6-4 victory over the Eagles...