Word: sprat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This, one might have thought, would have been enough to make Copley grab a berth on the next ship to London. He did nothing of the sort. At 28 he was already the one big fish in Boston's tiny cultural pond. In London he would have been a sprat in a sea of talent. So he hung back for nine more years, until 1774, and left only when the riots and disturbances that presaged the American Revolution threatened to ruin his market...
...between, one can read about the Athens-Sprat relationship, from alliance to confrontation; of shifts in the social and political structures through the period; and about gender relations and attitudes toward the ancient Greek family. Again, the overall effect is to flesh out the exhibit and provoke the viewer to thought and synthesis...