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...Riencourt has one resounding theme: "The major development of our time is the gradual and partly unconscious establishment of the American empire." It will appear to future historians, he dares to predict, as the end result of "everything that happened in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
...science they have been doing wouldn't intrigue most Harvard science wonks, since it's primarily the sort of observational work that engaged nineteenth century researchers: ice, wildlife, weather, and ocean depth surveys, plus simple physical and psychological tests on the effects of their bleak environment. However, these elementary investigations are crucial to cold regions researchers whose limited data on this huge area so far has come chiefly from a few itinerant ice island stations maintained by the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and from an international ice observation study called Project Bird...
Furthermore, what community or segment of Black Peoples should be used as representative of whatever the Black Experience is or has been? Should we use as typical the Republic of Haiti, where black men have ruled a sovereign state since the early nineteenth century, but where also such Black Rule or, if you prefer, Black Power, has been oppressive and dysfunctional for the black masses or lower classes? Or should we take the present-day state of Nigeria, where the polity is rent asunder by fratricidal warfare that was sparked by a grotesque genocidal act committed by one against another...
...nudes and interiors (e.g., Le Foyer, #37, or Femme Au Bain, #31); in XIII, a colored, proto-abstract landscape series. In the central room, divided by partitions, the smaller, more casual works have been mounted in groups, much as they would have appeared on the wall of a late nineteenth century room. Flowers on console tables bring out the color of those monotypes which have been reworked with pastel. A few chairs help to enhance this pleasant evocation of an interior...
...editorial pages have unedrgone a similar metamorphosis. A decade ago, editorials were still being written in nineteenth-century Bostonian prose. In 1953, the Globe ran a lead editorial on Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat...