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...Dover Beach the same place as Arnold's? Certainly the disjuncture between feeling and intellect--or science and emotion--has only seemed to widen since the mid-19th century. The transition from the industrial society to what Daniel Bell called the post-industrial society, consisting of services rather than manufacturing, has resulted in a difference of occupations but not of attitude; people are more than ever the bewildered children of progress. The past year alone has produced enough scientific inventiveness to shake the spirit for a lifetime: the first baby from a frozen embryo, surrogate mothers, genetic transfers between animals...
Director Mitchell discovered a similar legend of unrequited love in southern Louisiana, as well as local Creole social customs which allowed him to transpose the classic story: in the mid-19th century, a daughter of a recently freed salve was forbidden to marry a son of a family who had been freed in the 18th century. This Giselle, in love with Albert (whose family had already been free for a century), could never marry him. This tragedy stems from their frustrated love...
Dominating the show by its size (16 ft. 5½ in.) and superabundance of ihi, wehi and wana is the figure that once served as the gateway of Pukeroa pa, a fortified village. Though it is difficult to date most Maori sculpture precisely, this piece was made in the mid-19th century. Less fierce than similar gateway figures, the figure still casts a gaze threatening enough to intimidate any potential thief prowling through the Maori show...
...Israeli planners soon turned to studying Jerusalem's needs instead of international-style manifestoes to fashion their own city rather than another Brasilia. Heeding Historian Lewis Mumford's advice, they looked not to Baron Haussmann, who in the mid-19th century modernized Paris by cutting boulevards through the city's medieval fabric, but to Isaiah 65: 19, 21: "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people . .. and they shall build houses, and inhabit them...
Baha'is, who are often convenient scapegoats, have been persecuted since their faith was founded in mid-19th century Persia. After a tyrannical Shah was assassinated by a Muslim terrorist in 1896, crowds attacked the Baha'i community in Yazd, killing several people. Believers were repeatedly tortured and mutilated by local vigilantes in subsequent years. The worst outburst prior to Khomeini's takeover occurred in 1955-56 under the late Shah. Former agents of SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, say that government agents provoked anti-Baha'i hysteria to divert reactionary Muslims from turning...