Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WITH THE nineteenth and most recent series of The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, a one-time science fiction freak can put his musings to the test. Here is only one type of science fiction, anthologized from a monthly which has been thriving ever since the Forties. These stories share a lot with earlier work--the same few standard plots predominate; most of the styles are execrable...
...feel part of a tradition? I think any writer to some extent inherits the mid-nineteenth century New Englanders--I think we all benefit from Emerson's marvelous sense of what an American is, from Melville's superb thunder, from Thoreau's jackal and all that...
American Faces, Nineteenth century portraits at the MFA, book corridor...
...even if one looks at only the major parties, the nineteenth century beckons again. This time we come upon a man who is less well known than he deserves: Blanche Kelso Bruce. Born into slavery, Bruce as a young man opened and taught Kansas' first grade school for black children. He eventually became the first Negro to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate (1875-81), where he vainly fought against a bill to exclude Chinese immigration and fought for the rights of American Indians. He was later named to important posts by Presidents Garfield, Harrison, and McKinley...
...reason alone will never convince everybody. Many listeners cannot adapt to an orchestral sound not of the nineteenth century, no matter what the composition being played. It is for these people, the majority of the buying public (and of practicing professional musicians, for that matter) to whom the Argo release of the Bach orchestral suites is aimed. Neville Marriner leads the excellent Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields through their well-rehearsed paces...