Word: civilization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England's culture had begun to go to seed before the Civil War, but the war acted as an almost killing frost. Where Bronson Alcott's first experiences were peaceful peddling trips to the South, his sensitive daughter Louisa got her initiation into the great world in a Civil War hospital, where, in her first hour on duty, her patient died, and where she tried to lessen a soldier's agony by reciting Dickens to him while his arm was being amputated without an anesthetic. Bronson Alcott returned from his trips across the U. S. in times...
...careful, sympathetic biography, Katharine Anthony's Louisa May Alcott points the contrast between father and daughter, draws a subtle picture of the relationship within the strange Alcott family, but is principally memorable for the light it throws on U. S. culture before and after the Civil War. Viewing Louisa Alcott as a writer of great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life...
...more than a decade cinemaudiences have known short-tempered, pince-nezed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War officer, went wearily over & over a scene with James Stewart in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Benefits Forgot. He couldn't seem to smooth out his lines. Finally he got them straight. Veteran Director Clarence Brown shouted orders, "Cut, save the lights," and rubbed his hands. "Fine," he exulted, "fine...
Abner Doubleday was a general in the Civil War. The world will probably little note nor long remember what he did at Gettysburg* but it can never forget what he did at Cooperstown. In that sleepy little New York village 99 years ago, he invented baseball...