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...Essay on "The Metaphysics of War" [May 17] implies that were it not for the apocalyptic possibilities of nuclear technology, war might be thought of as an unpleasant necessity. Until the mid-19th century, slavery was regarded in the same way. We have outgrown slavery. We should also outgrow...
...repealed in 1681, but Puritan tradition effectively smothered Christmas festivities. Only in the mid-19th century, with the influx of German and Irish immigrants at New England ports, was the Puritan legacy undermined. In 1856, Massachusetts finally proclaimed Christmas a holiday...
Phototherapy, in fact, is not new; an English surgeon (and pioneer photographer) named Hugh Diamond used pictures of madwomen in his work with mental patients in the mid-19th century. But photography has only recently come into serious psychotherapeutic use, and it still tends to involve patients' responses to images of themselves or members of their immediate family. No one before Walker has collected reactions as systematically, or from as many people...
Hammett was hardly unqualified. He had worked on and off, both before and after the first world war, for the famous Pinkerton detective agency; an agency which had started in the mid-19th century as a sort of freelance secret service, and by the 20s was the single largest and most famous private detective agency in the world. Their labors on behalf of big business, and their often distressing violent strikebreaking now gives the Pinkertons a hated name through much of the United States--but that was still only a small part of their business. Most of what they...
More than 100 likenesses-captured mostly by unheralded studio photographers-range from the mid-19th century to the present, from Sun Yat-sen to Sibelius, from Gandhi to Garbo. They command attention for their uniqueness (Matisse on a horse), their rarity (a signed James Joyce) or their campy looniness (a bare-bottomed Mata Hari). All come from the collection...