Word: emma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such Dutch discoveries as Chinese tea and Oriental carpets. In Georgian England of the following century, the practical was combined with the beautiful. Lo, the great furniture makers: Sheraton, Chippendale, Hepplewhite. "Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort," says a character in Jane Austen's Emma...
...villain is dragged in from relative obscurity near the end, and the summing-up could be briefer. But the characters are portrayed with wickedly informed satire, and by the rueful conclusion, Murphy has exhibited more than enough potential to do for the legal world what the tongue-in-cheek Emma Lathen mysteries have done to demystify investment banking...
Gilbert is survived by his wife, the former Emma Cohen; his two sons, Walter Gilbert '53, a Nobel Laureate and fellow in microbiology here, and Alan Gilbert, a professor of international studies at the University of Denver; his daughter, Joanne Schwartzberg of Chicago; and six grandchildren...
That, of course, may be mere sentimentalism. Whatever works. Loneliness is the Great Satan. Jane Austen, who knew everything about courtship, would have understood the personals columns perfectly. Her novel Emma, in fact, begins, "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, happy, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition." The line might go right into the New York Review of Books...
...when the total U.S. population was only 87 million). And to the dismay of the now established Irish and Germans, more than 80% of the newcomers were Eastern and Southern Europeans: Sicilians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Russian Jews fleeing the Czar's pogroms. This was the era in which Emma Lazarus wrote the Statue of Liberty's welcome to the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but it was also the era in which the eminent Thomas Bailey Aldrich, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, composed a poem entitled "Unguarded Gates...