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...formidable and sometimes forbidding Margaret Atwood has turned a notorious Canadian murder case from the mid-19th century into a shadowy, fascinating novel. Alias Grace (Doubleday; 468 pages; $24.95) is less combative and ideological than such earlier Atwood novels as The Handmaid's Tale and The Robber Bride. That's not a drawback. There's a teasing, unknowable mystery at the heart of the story, which is the same one faced by jurors in Toronto in the 1840s: to what extent was Grace Marks, a pretty, nearly 16-year-old servant girl, guilty of the murder of her employer, Thomas...
...What we do today has less to do with what actually happened in the past than what drives our passions today. The proposal to honor all fallen Harvard alumni in the Civil War was an innocent (and naive) gesture to add to the general knowledge of what happened in mid-19th century America. Like Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, I have concluded "Alas,...That day has [not] arrived," but for a different additional reason. We should have known better in our times to bring up the subject when the very integrity of history is so much...
...problem for art-dictionary compilers is simple in its essence but in fact appallingly complex: the explosion of art-historical information in the past half-century. If you graphed its quantity, the line would run almost flat from Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century to John Ruskin in the mid-19th. But in the 20th century, and especially in the past 40 years, the line has gone almost vertical...
Maryland's northern border is the famous Mason-Dixon line, traditionally the demarcation between North and South. During the mid-19th century, Maryland was a major immigration center, and its ethnic diversity still sets it apart from many southern regions. The state also boasts demographic variety, from urban Baltimore to the rustic, Southern-styled Eastern Shore and the hills of the western panhandle. The eight House seats are divided equally between the parties, and while its political differences are great, when taken as a whole, Maryland is moderate with a slight Democratic edge, like the nation itself...
...deals with AIDS and drugs. It is also a radical updating of Puccini's La Boheme, and the costumes, designed by Angela Wendt, take their cue partly from that. Roger (Rodolfo in the opera) wears plaid pants made from a material similar to a popular trouser cloth of the mid-19th century. Tom Collins (Colline in the opera) follows Puccini in that the young man has a coat he loves, although it is a Tommy Hilfiger-style jacket. Today's Mimi looks nothing like Puccini's seamstress. She wears tight, shimmering spandex pants with a new holographic material annealed...