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...history has it that Tchaikovsky taught Taneyev everything he knew (about composition). Nikolas Rubinstein, brother of the pianist extraordinaire of the nineteenth century but unrelated to Artur Rubinstein, taught him piano at the conservatory. The fledgling Taneyev also followed in Rubinstein's footsteps by taking over Nikolas's job when he passed away. Then he took over the Moscow Conservatory...
...Thus his inquiries into crime led to the discovery of a confession that he quoted as its own title: I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother . . . Foucault's studies of sexuality led similarly to Herculine Barbin-Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite, which he prefaced with one of his most startling rhetorical questions...
...soldiers, and mused that they had all but disappeared and that the region was full of the worse kinds of blackguards and hucksters and promoters. If there was anything good about the Confederacy, he said, it was an old ethos, which, though mired in the horrors of the mid nineteenth-century South, had at least bothered to aspire to something while in the North industrialization ran amok. After the Civil War, the North took up the ideal of the gentleman planter for a while, and the legend of Lee--a fundamentally Northern myth--was born in cities full of coal...
...There are many nuances in the market. Russian enamel is soft because a major American buyer is out of the market. Nineteenth century Dutch painting is off because of the prospects of a Socialist-dominated government in Holland, which has depressed demand from Dutch citizens...
MEASURE FOR MEASURE has always been one of the most problematic of Shakespeare's plays. It's kind of mutant tragedy, with fits of claustrophic comedy, in which the outcome is unsettling and the humor discordant. Nineteenth century critics often found the play, with its sense of ad hoc justice and seemingly black core, one of Shakespeare's worst; Coleridge even called it hateful. The twentieth century has looked more kindly at the play (less of a compliment than it seems) seeing in it a vicious and cynical tragi-comedy. Written in the middle of Shakespeare's career, Measure...