Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immigrant queues of Ellis Island to the cotton mills of North Carolina, Hine did for the laboring poor of his country what Henry Mayhew had done for London workers in the earlier years of Queen Victoria's reign. He identified a class and made it visible. Before him, Jacob Riis had taken a camera into the slums of New York City, but Hine's range and output were larger in scope than Riis'. He was the first American to produce, with a camera, a fully sustained body of images that made people look back beyond the product...
...according to Hoving, "an entire gallery of masterpieces ... will be produced in three dimensions on your wall. This will be done in such a way that the original and the facsimile could not be told apart." Plans for encyclopedic TV series modeled on Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man hung in the air. All of this would be distributed for various TV and educational outlets around the U.S. It might have been the largest coup of Hoving's career, but last week it turned out to be a huge Indian gift...
Brahms Trio and Rhapsodies played by Teddy Tong '78 violinist, Andy Clakins '79, cellist, and Stephanie Jacob '79, pianist. Dunster Library...
...York American proclaimed the news of history's most famous nautical disaster in typical fashion. Right below a banner headline that announced the sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, the American sadly told the world of the drowning of John Jacob Astor, prominent financier and pillar of New York society. Subsequent paragraphs of the story dealt with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing North Atlantic that night--most of them...
Several of Fell's decipherments are based on inscriptions that professional archeologists say are frauds. The most interesting is a tablet found by one Reverend Jacob Gass in an Indian burial mound in Davenport, Iowa in 1877. (Among other errors in Fell's discussion of the tablet, he says it was found...