Word: panorama
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Richmond. The serials, "Friend Olivia" by Amelia E. Barr, and "The Merry Chanters" by Frank R. Stockton are continued. The other articles are "The New Croton Aqueduct" by Charles Barnard, "Captain Joe" by F. H. Smith, "The Nature and Method of Revelation" by George P. Fisher, and "The Paris Panorama of the Nineteenth Century" by Alfred Stevens and Henri Gervex. The number as a whole is above the average in interest...
...letters from the king, petitions to him or reports from his generals and his governors. The total impression made by such records when taken in connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like a mighty panorama. The products of the imagination are partly mythical and partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures...
Like all such things, the procession was late in starting; but when it at last appeared, it was well calculated to chain the interest. It was altogether the most scholarly, artistic, complete and interesting procession that I have ever seen. It was intended to represent, as by a living panorama, the history of the university and city for the last five hundred years; and it certainly succeeded in bringing back those past epochs with startling vividness. There came a sudden clatter of mounted police, then a snarling of antique trumpets, and Lo! the hands on the dial of time swept...
Nightly, to one seated in the theatre, a wondrous spectacle is presented, and a spectacle, too, that would amply repay the curious any trouble of witnessing. Whenever the panorama of beauty and talent is on the stage, soloists sink into insignificance; chorus and music are alike forgotten, and the attention of every one is fixed on what are generally supposed to be the minor parts of an opera, but are so no longer. No; a revolution has taken place, and hereafter, thanks to the tender watchfulness of Harvard, the "supe" will be the great attraction. The examples of the success...