Word: 19th
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...Brooklyn Museum, right outside the entrance to "Sensation," is a small oil by Thomas Cole, the great 19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...
After the discovery of the first Neanderthal bones in the mid-19th century, these beetle-browed, chinless cave dwellers who lived from 125,000 to 35,000 years ago were dismissed as primitive apelike brutes. But contemporary science saw them in a better light. With brains as large as ours, they apparently cared for their sick, made simple jewelry and buried their dead--perhaps in quasi-religious ceremonials. Now, however, we may have to revert to the more savage image. According to a report in last week's Science, at least some Neanderthals butchered, ate and disposed of their...
...women also succeeded in landing two fencers in the NCAA tournament--Katz in the foil and sophomore Elizabeth Aranow in the epee. Both battled to top-24 national finishes, with Katz landing 19th and Aranow 22nd...
...prefer the 19th century...
...Like that crazy Socrates, who made fun of his interlocutors while pretending to compliment them, Kierkegaard uses irony to force his opponents to avoid rehearsed answers and confront their true beliefs. He even wrote under pseudonyms like Hilarius Bookbinder, Nicolaus Notabene and Constantin Constantius. In the world of 19th century Christian philosophy, this is sidesplitting stuff, trust me. In the book, Kierkegaard wrote, "Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it but loved by those who do." When I ran Kierkegaard's argument by Purdy, he said, "Kierkegaard is very neat...