Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Informed analysts agreed that the Senator's mind, by a curious quirk of evolution, had reverted to that characteristic of Republicans of the late nineteenth century. Not the eighteenth century, as the ignorant said: that was the age of the Adamses, of Jefferson and Madison, of Franklin and Hamilton. No, the late nineteenth century: the era when political thought was mired in the Serbonian bog of manifest destiny, untrammelled acquisitiveness and the bloody shirt...
...scholars." Honorary degrees, like that first one conferred on George Washington will be given to those distinguished few who have done something for Harvard in specific or humanity in general. With each honorary degree, the President will pronounce a short testimonial, composed in a flowery language reminiscent of the eighteenth century...
...revelry grew and for a while Commencement was a noisy carnival with academic and social pretentions. All the members of Boston's growing aristocracy, every significant member of the various New England governments, royalists, patriots, Anglicans, and Calvanists, all attended the great Commencements of the eighteenth century and were followed there by spectacle-seeking hordes. Vending booths and freak shows were set up along the streets in the College vicinity; there were elephants, mermaids, mummies, and mutants, all osten- sibly celebrating Harvard's annual Commencement...
...testimony Bullitt stated "The book is a deliberate work of art, not a great one by any means, but an effort to portray a complex character. It presents a theme common to the eighteenth century, the education of a woman as she learns the value of love...
...should be saddened to be deprived of it as a document" of the eighteenth century "battle between a restricted Puritan ethic and a freer, more generous attitude toward life," he said...