Word: nineteenth
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LIFTED from the walls, packed and shipped, paintings from the exhibition of contemporary New York art have abandoned the Metropolitan Museum and scattered. The new show of Nineteenth Century American Art which arrived to replace the modern exhibition has transformed the domain beyond recognition. Representational paintings of mountain landscapes, stern portraits of government leaders, scenes of domestic life now sit where the abstract geometrical colors of the avant-garde did in the fall. The leap from nineteenth to twentieth century shows the revolution in sensibility that slashed through the old tradition, when artists gave up sketching images of the world...
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...major immigration of Italian people to this nation occurred till 1880, nearly 400 years after Columbus. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, millions of Italians crossed the Atlantic, just as Columbus had, seeking a better life for themselves and their families. This wave continued until 1921, when the United States government imposed restrictions on immigration...
This quest for a national identity has been further confused and corrupted by foreign powers-Russia, Britain, and France in the nineteenth century, Britain since World War I, and the United States since 1947. These countries and most recently the U. S., have used Greece for their own economic and military benefit...
...case of Who to Love, the most unfortunate muffing has been done by the director, Albert Marre. Marre has, for some reason unknown to me, taken Alfred's lyrically sad saga of polities, love, scandal and death in nineteenth-century Irish Brooklyn and turned it into a dirge. It is without a doubt one of the most misguided jobs of musical staging I've ever seen. Marre should know that tragedy can only work in musicals if treated slyly: the sadder events of Hogan's Goat must sneak in the back door of Who to Love -for if the audience...