Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Didn't Die: After fires in 1991 and 1992 wiped out five landmarks in the 19th century downtown, Randolph wasn't sure whether to bother rebuilding. But people rallied, flocking to town meetings and raising cash to reconstruct in the period style. The newcomer-fueled housing market is the strongest in a decade...
...think I'd begin with "The Spirit of St. George," which I wrote for L.B.J. to deliver in Salt Lake City. It challenged Americans to have the sort of spirit the Mormons demonstrated in the 19th century when, rather than settle into the relatively comfortable life they'd managed to build in Salt Lake City, they trekked back into the wilderness to found a temple at St. George, Utah...
From Kiku Adatto, director of children's studies at Harvard, we heard that children ought to be viewed as independent, adventurous and playful. She argued that we should recover the 19th century stories of resourceful youths like Huckleberry Finn...
...with the masculine Holy One introduced both a feminine divinity and frankly sexual imagery to Judaism. Angels and demons struggled in Kabbalistic pages, reincarnation was championed, number codes abounded. Sublime spirituality coexisted with "practical Kabbalah," the use of magic charms or amulets. Such aspects were profoundly embarrassing to the 19th century founders of Reform Judaism. Reform together with the similarly rationalist Conservative movement and modern Orthodoxy came to dominate American Judaism. After the Holocaust wiped out many of its key teachers, Jewish mysticism seemed destined to languish as a superstitious whisper...
...making Amistad, his forthcoming film about a 19th century slave rebellion, Steven Spielberg faced the difficult task of shaping a coherent narrative out of history, always a tricky business, given the manifold ambiguities and contradictions of human behavior. A similar task awaits whoever gets to adjudicate a recently filed lawsuit alleging that Spielberg and his colleagues are, to put it baldly, plagiarists--that they swiped their vision of the Amistad tale from Echo of Lions, a little-known historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud...