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Nobody asked me, but[3] I think Barnicle's misdeed was a journalistic misdemeanor, not a felony like Smith's. But since the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,[4] some folks thought the Barnicle and Smith cases ought to be treated identically. When the Globe's editor, Matt Storin, rescinded his demand for Barnicle's resignation and instead suspended him without pay for two months, these critics saw a racial double standard. They figured that if Barnicle had been judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin...
Your list of 20th century baseball records that won't be broken anytime soon [SPORT, July 27] should have included Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski's astonishing 1966 mark of 161 double plays in one season. JOHN T. BIRD Birmingham...
Hitler and the holocaust remain the 20th century baseline for the discussion of evil, the ne plus ultra. But as Ron Rosenbaum writes in his restlessly probing and deeply intelligent book Explaining Hitler (Random House; 444 pages; $30), Hitler has escaped intellectual capture. The old tabloid survival myth (HITLER ALIVE IN ARGENTINA!) perversely comes true in the realm of our historical deliberations. "The search for Hitler," says Rosenbaum, "has apprehended not one coherent, consensus image of Hitler but rather many different Hitlers, competing Hitlers, conflicting embodiments of competing visions...
...this might suggest, Florence Harding is less a deconstruction of this First Lady's tastes and thinking than it is a titillating--and unquestionably entertaining--look at an early 20th century political marriage devoid of a mundane moment. Warren Harding, who died of heart failure in his second year as President in 1923, ran the country during a time of baroque corruption and excess that the book also engagingly chronicles. Like the current occupant of the White House, he seemed incapable of economizing on his affections for women or on following his wants cautiously. Among the previously unpublished records featured...
CARVED IN STONE If you think only computers have a Year 2000 problem, think again. Gravestone carvers say there is a surfeit of headstones with 19-- carved on them. Apparently people ordered their markers, not expecting to out-live the 20th century. Many will. The good news? The stones can be restored...