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...Peace. He was disappointed when he found it was not about cowboys and Indians, but he stuck with it nonetheless. He has read the book two or three times and counts it as one of his favorites. He was deeply moved by Sandburg's volumes on Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography...
...there were 160 medical schools with 28,142 students and 5,747 graduates annually. Abraham Flexner, an educator, not a physician, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to study the situation. He recommended the closing or reorganization of all substandard proprietary schools. By 1930 there were only 76 schools with a total of 21,597 students and 4,565 graduates annually. Little significant expansion of medical schools occurred for the next 20 years, but the "Flexner revolution" helped make the U.S. the world leader in biomedical science and medical education. From 1901 through...
...this is the little lady who made this big war," said Abraham Lincoln. The President was meeting the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time, more than a decade after the book's publication in 1852. It was not simply a patronizing remark. Harriet Beecher Stowe really was small: "I am a little bit of a woman," she described herself, "about as thin and dry as a pinch of snuff." If Uncle Tom's Cabin did not quite start a war, it ignited the minds of people North and South, both for and against...
...search for relentless relevance can go occasionally rhetorical, as in talk about "man's eternal quest for meaning, justice and truth." It can also turn a little too retroactive. Thus Abraham is labeled "the first angry young man" and Isaac becomes "the first survivor." But much may be forgiven an author who can look Adam in the eye and say, "Poor man: punished for nothing. And he wasn't even Jewish...
...Peter Riegert) and the girl (Jane Anderson) have each been involved in cozily domestic relationships with homosexual roommates. Their chance to go straight, as it were, is blighted by the cruel disparagement of the new lovers by their former partners (F. Murray Abraham and Gina Rogers...