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...earliest extant American sources to define "love" was the 1828 Webster's New American Dictionary, which described "love between the sexes" as "a compound affection, consisting of esteem, benevolence, and animal desire." Throughout the 19th century this definition underwent significant alterations, until the same entry in the 1904 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary read, "a feeling of intimate personal sympathy and affection toward an individual of the opposite sex." In both cases, love is equated with affection. But didn't the 1828 definition pack a considerably larger wallop in terms of its candidness and discrimination...
...high school Starr discovered politics. He once told an interviewer that some of his earliest recollections are of the Nixon-Kennedy election of 1960. "I really identified with Nixon because of his rather humble roots and the way he worked his way up," Starr said. "I admired that greatly; I thought that was very much an American dream...
Scientists have found the earliest known appearance of HIV in humans--in the blood sample of a Bantu man from Central Africa who died in 1959. The study, co-authored by Dr. David Ho and to be published in this week's Nature, holds little promise for the HIV sufferer of today. But its findings may shed important light on the virus' murky origins...
...collection begins with a fragment from 1923 that is among the earliest known surviving symphony-broadcast recordings. At first its sound seems irritatingly thin and scratchy, but as the listener's ears adapt, the focus turns to Willem van Hoogstraten's white-hot, meticulously sculpted rendering of most of Beethoven's Coriolanus overture; the level of orchestral precision is breathtaking. Even more remarkable is Willem Mengelberg's spellbinding presentation in 1924 of two fragments from Richard Strauss's Death and Transfiguration. Mengelberg achieves an almost spiritual intimacy in the work's tender, meditative broodings and a radiant beauty...
...earliest version of today's Crimson was born on Jan. 24, 1873, publishing as a bi-weekly under "The Magenta" banner. (The paper changed its name two years later when the College changed its color.) It was a thin layer of editorial content surrounded by a thinner layer of advertising. It barely scraped through the 70s, sometimes requiring its editors to pay for the printing costs themselves. But at the beginning of the 1880s it found itself on more solid financial footing...