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Richard Savage, the poet, is almost a nonentity. But Savage as the friend of Pope and Samuel Johnson becomes a highly important figure in early eighteenth century English literature. And as the claimant to the title of "bastard son of the late Earl Rivers" he has created an aura of wonder which approaches an unfinished fairy tale...
...course of its long struggle with encroaching commercialism, successfully fused a workmanlike puritanism with a vivid sense of artistic and gracious living. Almost completely ignoring the upstart sciences, the Atheneum has gathered together a 380,000 book collection of histories, biographies, and probably the most complete collection of eighteenth century sermons and Confederate literature to be found anywhere...
...orchestra was less successful in this regard in the two slender symphonies by William Boyce which had opened the concert. The performances, particularly of the Symphony Number Three, lacked the unanimity of attacks so necessary in brisk Eighteenth Century miniatures of this kind. But enthusiasm is almost as important as finesse, and enthusiasm the orchestra had in abundance...
Some 4,000 troops of the Eighteenth Red Army line the vital Chumbi Valley between Bhutan and Sikkim. They are quartered in twelve barracks, and up to 50 new barracks are being constructed. To the west, Chinese garrisons at Gartok, trade center of western Tibet, and six other strategic locations threaten the Indians in Kashmir...
...later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer is said to have been sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of a Jewish court, so also as the last decades of the eighteenth century...