BUILDING human-centered ORGANIZATIONS doesn't IMPLY a return to the paternalistic, corporate WELFARE practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't WANT to be nannied.
It's an irony that growing inequality could MEAN more MONEY for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have TAKEN to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew CARNEGIE's comment that it's a disgrace to die WEALTHY.
VACATION reading is not a new CONCEPT. Ever since the 19th century, when NOVELS were considered relatively SINFUL indulgences, LEISURE and fiction-reading have been closely associated.
Most black leaders, whether LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER, from Frederick Douglas and MARTIN Delaney on in the MIDDLE of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's ACCOUNT of the creation of the OXFORDENGLISH Dictionary in 'The PROFESSOR and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th CENTURY.
As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter KEYS went from solo to symphony. They were the WEAPON of choice for professional WRITERS, the business elite, PEOPLE with things to say and the need to say them quickly.
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive WAY, as if our AMERICANTRADITION were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th CENTURY oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
WITHIN the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push BACK against MODERN' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't TRUE in some literal SENSE.
I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I STEP out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a GLASS. Do you KNOW what I MEAN? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the END of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.
My VIEW of an EXCELLENT novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th CENTURY: NARRATIVE, CHARACTER and voice are of equal importance.
When I was a KID growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland INDIANS were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named LOUIS Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.