Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five issues. Caleb's best-selling novels (The Alienist, Angel of Darkness) are set a century ago, so it's a nice twist to have him write a mystery thriller set in 2024. We can't wait to see how it ends, especially since, in the spirit of 19th century novelists who, like Charles Dickens, wrote and published books in installments, Caleb is still writing Part 2. Who says editors don't like to live dangerously...
...America at the end of the 19th century suffered from all of the same symptoms of a social capital deficit, that we do today. They had the same problem, and they fixed...
...hundred years ago, Putnam says, industrialization and urbanization effectively created the same phenomenon that modern technology causes today. Faced with this deficit of social capital, America at the end of the 19th century founded hundreds of community organizations...
...Calling for a reconnection in our time, Putnam says we need new solutions that will fit our new reality, in a way that is enjoyable. Rejecting the formation of clubs like those formed in the late 19th-century, Putnam says what we need is "more flextime, more release time for parents...
...Gogh self-portrait), and its well-rounded representation of seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish painting (including a Rembrandt.) Other exhibitions worth noting: "The Art of Identity: African Sculpture from the Teel Collection," (a stunning collection of masks from Western and Central Africa), "Sublimation: Art and Sensuality I the 19th century" (most importantly two Gustave Moreau canvases), "America: Art After 1950" (including a Frank Stella and Jackson Pollock), and "Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing." Upcoming exhibitions include: Oct. 30-Jan. 23, 2000: "Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550-1650," and Nov. 27-March 26: "The Shape...