Word: 19th
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...Dickens has a novelist writing in English achieved Rowling's command over a whole society--young and not so young, of modest means and with money to flambe--and the Dickens analogy quickly outlives its usefulness. None of his novels were simultaneous best sellers in dozens of languages; the 19th century world was a markedly slower place than our own. And Dickens' audience had none of the distractions that beguile Rowling's readers: no radio, films, recorded music, TV, video and computer games, the Internet. For years, literary culture has been portrayed as gasping on life support, sustained only...
...been paid too much. This view was given new currency when the Seattle Mariners' free-agent shortstop, Alex ("A-Rod") Rodriguez, last week signed a 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers for (no typo) $252 million. Is A-Rod's windfall really news? Toward the end of the 19th century, the boxer John L. Sullivan earned four times as much as the President, and Sully's contemporary Mike ("King") Kelly, baseball's first transcendent star, was able to underwrite a flashy lifestyle with what bleacher bums saw as an oversize paycheck. Joe DiMaggio was criticized for his regular spring...
...Fleury, on the 19th day of December, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand, in the 14th indiction...
...Best Stores in New York." With one of the very few shops in the city where hats are actually made on the premises, Barbara and apprentice designer Mei Lan Low hand-block and hand-craft hats from start to finish using techniques and equipment scarcely changed since the 19th century. Says Feinman, "Some of the wood blocks we use are probably 100 years old, and the sewing machine we sew hats on, called a setup machine, is a refurbished antique. You can't buy a new one; the machines are not manufactured anymore." Styles range from fedoras to cloches...
...seriously. Historical sympathy will provide all the answers, of course, but the juxtaposition of photography with such old-fashioned subject matter and composition still seems unusual. It is strange to see sharp, crisp weeds that could be a picture in a biology textbook within the same frame as the 19th-century figure of the "Marble Faun." Day was trying to paint with a lens, pushing light instead of pulling it. Each of the pictures in Day's Christ series, "Seven Words," looks like an old-fashioned painting of Christ that suddenly spiraled open like a shutter to reveal the pores...