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Boyer, a history major, was named a Presidential Scholar last year. He had been studying German biomedical laboratory development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, according to the news service...
...view of nineteenth-century white society that Asian men were asexual and that Asian women were submissive and exotic continues today and will doubtless haunt us for a long time. However, although we may not always have the power to choose how others represent us, we do have the power to define how we can live our lives...
...director George Cukor envisioned this scene in mid-nineteenth century Paris. "Camille," starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor, is another highlight in the reclusive star's long and fascinating career. The film, showing this Sunday at the Brattle, is part of the theater's current Garbo tribute...
...were the last of the dinosaurs," says Eleanor Doermann Larrabee. "It was really sort of nineteenth-century there--its attitude about how one should behave in public, how one should be shepherded, and many Harvard professors didn't want to teach at Radcliffe. I wished the place would enter the twentieth century...
Throughout the book, Byatt immerses her readers in the social mores and concerns of the mid-nineteenth century, resembling her nineteenth century predecessors perhaps more than she does other twentieth-century authors. Despite the frustrations of "The Conjugial Angel," "Morpho Eugenia" makes Byatt's latest effort worth reading, and a welcome respite from the pressures of post-modernity...