Word: nineteenth
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...Proust and fashions, Proust and the 19th century-no approach is too narrow, no approach is too wide. Proustians are forever arguing among themselves. In this short volume the Master is variously defined as a chronicler of society whose work was "a summing up of the nineteenth century" and, on the contrary, a "visionary artist" whose genius was to transcend time. He is described as a moralist who "judges" and "condemns" and a "visual writer" who sees. He is compared with French Impressionist paintings and Wagnerian opera...
There is a fine photograph taken in the last half of the nineteenth century. Eighteen hundreds-for those of us without good historical understanding they can at least be approached in crude chronology. Between the war for independence (revolutionary) and the freeing of the slaves, there was another large war, of opposing directions and, at an off-Broadway production of Our American Cousin, the sudden death of our president, a good man. References to this century have priorities in the immediate moment, and beyond the eighteenth century the understanding are truly historical-the chosen preservations that have influenced...
...wish as they feel? Or is one freer than the other? If blame is appropriate, who should be arrested-the speaker for inciting or the audience for disrupting? A discussion of these questions need not be hypothetical. Federal and state court cases on these issues go back to the nineteenth century. A large body of constitutional precedent has grown up around these problems. Because they involve competing rights and often chaotic situations, such disputes have often brought split decisions. These disagreements have engendered lengthy opinions and dissents. An examination of this judicial history will provide a useful perspective...
...thing, sure, but it's also more than that. Rags's call to revolution is really more of a nostalgic attempt to return to the nineteenth century. It's a clarion call reverberating with notes of simplistic iconoclasm, Emersonian self-reliance, a Thoreauvian communion with the land, and, ironically enough, a championship of the small businessman. Spelt out in those terms, it's just not that revolutionary. More like Consciousness I in bell-bottoms. Which means that where Rags is at may be just about midway between the late Herbert Hoover and the early Yves St. Laurent...
...from the camera so that the audience only sees his clear side in profile) that "People come and people go, but nothing ever happens at the Grand Hotel." Yes, splendid Eliot had some words of advice for the students when he returned to a "distinguished Sanders gathering" for his nineteenth birthday...