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Children of Darkness is couched in Mr. Mayer's approximation of the elegant, cynical wit which the English Restoration famously bequeathed to the eighteenth century. It is set in an annex to the Newgate jail, where the villains of The Beggar's Opera sang like caged birds. Yet it obstreperously violates a cardinal rule of the genre to which it aspires to belong: the rule that says that no character may be endowed with the ability to feel profound and communicable pain. The picturesque discomfiture and knavery that are familiar and amusing in Congreve and Gay are gradually...
...first, (pictured on the right), a gift from the Hearst Foundation, is "one of many relics from the warehouses of the late William Randolph Hearst which Hearst himself may have seen only once," according to Robert S. Sturgis '44, of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson & Abbott, Architects. The second is an eighteenth century Flemish landscape from the Fogg Museum...
...unfortunate tradition of innumerable German graphics at the Busch-Reisinger has been broken by its present exhibit of recent acquisitions. The new works of art, primarily from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, include religious sculpture and a fine fifteenth century Dutch painting--a pleasant exception to the Museum's unduly strict devotion to German...
Work will include a study of some representative eighteenth century battles, the geographical expansion of Europe, the explorations of the sixteenth century and other topics related to the material...
Some monograph titles under consideration for the coming year are "Taxation as a Police Measure," "The Baptists as an Eighteenth Century Minority," "Quaker Patterns of Benevolence," and "The Debate Over the Bill of Rights...