Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first articulated this account was a Columbia professor, William A. Dunning, who wrote a series of monographs condemning Radical Reconstruction at the turn of the century. Much of what. Dunning and his followers said was true: the carpetbag governments were indeed faulty, corruption was all too prevalent, the tragedy of the Negro was unquestioned. They made a myth that still persists in American historiography...
ASSORTED PROSE, by John Updike. An early arrival on the summer-reading shelf, this collection of nostalgic and humorous essays and reportage (including the classic account of Ted Williams' last game at Boston's Fenway Park) gracefully serves to remind the reader that few writers exceed Updike in skill with words...
...Johnson's skills. Most Republicans and Southern Democrats will oppose it. So, probably, will some Midwestern and Western legislators of both parties. And even some liberals are disappointed. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who favors repeal, wrote last week: "The President failed to take into account the public concern over the extension of union authority which will result from 14(b)'s repeal . . . Trade-union activity is heavily responsible for the rising standard of living, job security and better working conditions for employees throughout the country-but there have been places where the growth...
Heart disease is the top killer in the U.S. today, and strokes rank third, just behind cancer. But heart disease and strokes both develop from diseases of the arteries, and together they account for 75% of all U.S. deaths. The deadly statistics, contends Houston Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey, make cardiovascular (heart-artery) disease the most pressing problem of modern medicine...
...Talk of the Town" department, all of it reprinted. The assortment casts neither light nor doubt on Updike's competence, and many of the entries are so minor as to defy measurement. But to someone who did not see it in The New Yorker in 1960, his grandstand account of Ted Williams' last trip to the plate in Boston's Fenway Park (Williams hit a home run) is worth the full price of admission to these pages...