Word: eighteenth
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...independence (revolutionary) and the freeing of the slaves, there was another large war, of opposing directions and, at an off-Broadway production of Our American Cousin, the sudden death of our president, a good man. References to this century have priorities in the immediate moment, and beyond the eighteenth century the understanding are truly historical-the chosen preservations that have influenced us in our reference to them. The 1800's, however, are historical enough for us to believe that they are real and not a warp of the present vortex, but they are also close enough in time...
...lighting of the last scenes to the wild-set and dark-set of hues. If Ford's themes foreshadow Sade, Poe and Nabokov, the combined effect of Colacecchia's set and Jonathan Miller's lighting evokes the same sense of demented, striving sensuality found in the eighteenth-century etchings of Piranesi...
Mercifully, events are never so pat, and in the past few years, more and more attention has been given to this phase of Italian art. The renewal of interest is magnificently recorded in "Painting in Italy in the Eighteenth Century: Rococo to Romanticism," a collection of 104 paintings by 81 artists, now at the Toledo Museum of Art. Concurrently, New York's Metropolitan Museum is mounting a large show of drawings by the same masters...
...Chicago, the legendary Stringfellow Barr devised the Great Books program, and St. John's College, in Annapolis, Md., reverted to a program of readings in the classics substantially similar to the school's original eighteenth century curriculum...
...awarded his Ph.D. that June. He feels that "Debussy was the final rupture from classical tonal thinking, although this break was prefigured and prepared by nineteenth century practice as far back as Beethoven. Wagner didn't make it the way Debussy did. While the concise structures of eighteenth century tonality seem almost irrelevant to the Wagnerian rhetoric, Wagner still relies on the concept of smooth progressions. Debussy's progressions are classical period. Nevertheless, Debussy does not deny tonality in the larger sense, but devises harmonic progressions which are really analogous to older functional ones...