Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOTABLE EXHIBITS currently at Harvard include the Wertheim Collection now being shown at the Fogg, which includes a number of French late nineteenth century works of astonishing quality. All are carefully chosen, from the Van Gogh self-portrait with its bright green background burning through at the subject's eyes to a Matisse bowl of geraniums that illustrates the gradual way the twentieth century grew out of the advances of the eighties and nineties. There is not a weak or ordinary picture in the group and, together in one room, they provide an excellent area for cross-comparison...
...care what young girls think are anomalous to the American viewer. Felix Greene, a British film-maker who made Inside North Vietnam in 1967, documents an entire society of such anomalies. The literacy rate in Vietnam was lower after the French left than before they arrived in the nineteenth century, but North Vietnamese children attend school next to air-raid bunkers. When American bombers are sighted, the teacher bangs a gong and the kids retreat into the shelters. When the alarm is over, they emerge happily, grinning like American kids when the ice cream man comes around the corner...
...common complaint against chamber music, on the other side of the volume scale from nineteenth century masses, is that it is difficult to understand to the uninitiated. At Dunster House this week is an excellent chance to hear attractive, lighter works by Mozart and Poulenc. The players are some of the very best around Cambridge, among them Kathy Flanders (flute), John Eisenhart (horn), and Jay Gottlief (piano...
...volume is a re-issue of Benjamin Butterworth's 1892 collection of drawings of early tools right up to the then-latest advances in American technology. The self-satisfied texture of this beautiful book speaks more eloquently than any written passage could for the peculiar sensibilities of the late nineteenth century businessman...
PART OF THE PROBLEM is that the issue begins from a fashionable kind of desperate feminism, of which Virginia Woolf can be seen as a symbol. "Sensibility" itself is a legacy of a thoroughly nineteenth-century, over-sensitized, sitting-room mentality to which Woolf was the direct heir. And like Virginia Woolf, this set of attitudes finds itself caught uneasily between hating and depending...