Word: eighteenth
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Divine Right. America has not just aged, according to Heren; it started old. Far from being steamy insurrectionists, the Founding Fathers were really "eighteenth century English gentlemen" who thought of themselves as engaged in a more or less orderly "transfer of power," with the presidency being merely the "lineal descendant of the colonial office of governor." In fact, Heren likes the institution of the U.S. presidency because it reminds him of "a latter-day version of a British medieval monarchy," with the Congress cast as the barons and the Supreme Court filling the role of the church. He even goes...
...subject turned out to be the eighteenth century controversy between America's Old World revilers and her New World defenders...
Adams's rendering of Stravinsky's Danses Concertantes was his most successful effort of the evening. The neo-classic work struck a balance between the eighteenth Vs.twentieth-century polarity of the program, as well as between Adams's academic training and his modernistic bias. For Adams it was just the right combination of lyricism and efficiency...
...French Revolution, influenced the philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer, the plays of Schiller, the novels of Goethe, the poems of Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, the socialism of Marx, the ethics of Tolstoi, and, altogether, had more effect on posterity than any other writer or thinker of that eighteenth century in which writers were more influential than they had ever been before...
...successfully, for new film conventions to express Genet's revolutionary theatrical form. In Ulysses he has recreated Joyce's form superbly, has proved himself a great translator. The mind delights in considering the unconventional literary masterpieces he might next adapt. My own first candidate is Tristram Shandy, the eighteenth-century grandfather of Ulysses...