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...Part IV: Puzzling Aftermath
...study showed that the top two social classes correlating with the top 10 per cent income group in this country (upper middle class) have made up 70-75 per cent of Harvard Medical Classes over the past 15 years. Slight shifts in class III (lower middle class) and class IV and V (working class) are overshadowed by the continuing dominance by the upper middle class...
...They were imported from Europe in the 1890s by a wealthy New York drug manufacturer who wanted to establish in the U.S. all the birds mentioned anywhere in Shakespeare's works. Unfortunately, the starling was mentioned once in Henry IV, Part I: "Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but 'Mortimer...
...Waterloo, then plunge Europe into decades of troublesome peace. England is unable to disarm because of the danger that he still represents and is ruined by the cost of its huge military establishment. (The ubiquitous Byron, in this version, leads an unsuccessful workers' rebellion against George IV and is executed.) H.A.L. Fisher's Napoleon is a bit more believable. At 46, he escapes to America after losing at Waterloo. Thereupon he blusters his way to a conquest of Peru and finally hatches the notion of striking at England through India. Chance intervenes, and Napoleon is lost...
...equally the root of the paradise myth) continued through Watteau's colleagues and imitators, Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Pater - in The Dance (circa 1730) - Nicolas Lancret and the rest. Nor was it altogether lost with the French Revolution. Delacroix, whose painfully stiff early imitations of Rubens (like Henri IV Conferring the Regency on Marie de' Medici) are much to the fore in this show, was able in maturity to go back to his great prototype and produce such majestically sensual works as Turkish Women Bathing (1854), an outdoor seraglio, a blend of Venus garden and fete champetre...