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...York Times. For all of the insipid chin-stroking and pontificating over these past few days about final clubs and their elitism, one would think it was a new problem. Alas, final clubs in general have been operating more or less under the same system from the eighteenth century right up until the twenty-first, with female final clubs folding right in to the tradition as they’re formed. People have been making the same trite observations about them for just as long: “They’re too exclusive...
...black uprising also meant that the city’s whites – even with the emergence of two-party politics – remained united. “New York is not America,” Lepore writes, “but what happened in that eighteenth-century slave city tells one story, and a profoundly troubling one, of how slavery destabilized—and created—American politics...
Bush, who has no relation to the president, said that he has not seen Roberts since graduation. But he said he has many fond memories of life with the future nominee, which include playing Nerf football in their room and hearing Roberts endlessly quote the eighteenth-century literary critic Samuel Johnson...
...story begins when Bodoni, a “sixtyish” antiquarian book-dealer whose name Eco appears to have taken from the eighteenth-century typographer, awakes from a coma with no memory of his former life or identity. Through some loophole in the threads of fate, however, he knows all of Western literature and a good deal of history and popular psychology par coeur...
...Would any historian wish to exchange the worst traits of the Twentieth Century for the scandalous doings of the Eighteenth century? Bradford's history of the Pilgrim Fathers shows us within ten years after the Mayflower cast anchor at Plymouth such vices as are unknown to civilization today...