Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
...yesterday's best matches was played by senior Jim Bailey. He was one up on the eighteenth, but lost the hole. On the nineteenth, Bailey shot deep into the woods, while his Yale opponent drove onto the fairway. But Bailey tied the hole, and won on the twentieth...
...Sartre's stories and the creatures of Camus in their state of elevated wretchedness--a vilifying yet inexpensive estrangement that sets them off from their humdrum fellows. They have in their minds' eye the limbo of clandestine disbelief they think is occupied by post-war, or just post-nineteenth century, European intellectual degenerates. Needless to say, they fall short, and usually end up feeling what they imagine French poets feel or at least what philosophy students at the Sorbonne feel when they look at American tourists with a disdainful glare...
...Department ought to continue its adjustment away from the Nineteenth Century German attitude that minutiae ought to be cultivated for their own sake, and to present with continuing vividness an eternally fascinating and contemporary culture from which the greater part of western civilization has grown, and continues, in large part, to draw its inspiration...
...Shaw's worst decisions), for example, will attract anyone interested in the history of civil liberties; and even the more technical opinions in the various railroad cases can be appreciated as evidence of the way in which strong judges fostered industrial expansion in the first half of the nineteenth century...