Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upstaters' discontent is not ideological; they simply don't like to lose. And in a state where legislators are afraid to liberalize an eighteenth-century divorce law for fear of their constituents' disapproval, Governor Rockefeller's remarriage all but assures that he will never win public office again. Any Democrat who has been faithful to his wife can beat...
More and more in the nineteenth century, this life, as Miller reveals it, grew fatalistically preoccupied with the question of its own national identity. As he traces "the devious paths through which America made its way out of the eighteenth century into the nineteenth," it becomes clear that these are mostly paths of conflict. The two complete sections, "The Evangelical Basis" and "The Legal Mentality", describe endless conflict between emotional and intellectual factions at all levels of society...
...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 pretensions. All the members of Boston's growing aristocracy, every significant member of the various New England governments, royalists, patriots. Anglicans, and Calvinists, 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 street in the College vicinity; there were elephants, mermaids, mummies, and mutants, all ostensibly celebrating Harvard's annual Commencement...
Samuel Johnson: Vile rubbish. Women in the eighteenth century had all the power. Madame de Stael practically made the French revolution...