Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nineteenth century thieves' cant: a blackjack...
Upperclassmen will be offered Humanities 120. "Counter Currents in the Nineteenth Century," which emphasizes crities of their age like Dosteovsky and Nietzsche. And Professor Harlow Shapely will conduct a survey of Cosmography for which, he says, "the only prerequisite is persistent curiosity...
Upperclassmen will be offered Humanities 120. "Counter Currents in the Nineteenth Century," which emphasizes crities of their age like Dosteovsky and Nietzsche. And Professor Harlow Shapely will conduct a survey of Cosmography for which, he says, "the only prerequisite is persistent curiosity...
...done. Certainly the characters, Billy Budd, the personification of good, and Claggart, the personification of evil, are that old morality theme incarnate. And the first act suffers a bit in drawing this Maichean point too bluntly. Maybe you could get away with it in the Nineteenth century, but this is the Twentieth century, and this boy Billy Budd is just a little bit too good to be true, and Claggart--what motivates the man to behave so meanly? You find yourself wondering why he is in secure--but then you realize that Melville didn't think in those terms...
Mill on the Po could have been an excellent dramatization of the conflicts between Italian landlords and tenant farmers at the end of the nineteenth century. Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash...