Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand so tall at home. In fact, writes Alain in an article sold to British, French and American publications, he could be defined as "henpecked." Alain relates that Tante Yvonne cured her husband's fondness for Scotch whisky by adding coffee to his glass, kept the household account book and slipped a hair between the pages so she would know if the President tried to peek. She thriftily bought the presidential shirts, socks and underwear at the Bon Marché, a sort of Parisian Macy's, and once was heard to remark: "You're running France...
...Williams' account, all suffer from role fatigue-the sort of exhaustion afflicting actors in a play that has run too long. One of the whites says: "I think I am very tired of being a Jew." Williams, clearly, is very tired of being a black. He seems to assume that his characters, whether they know it or not, are stifled as much by the kind of ennui that immobilizes men trapped in situations they cannot control as by the terror of their predicament...
...Dozen Troys. Berve, of course, does not deny that a city named Troy once existed. Yet he maintains that none of the archaeological findings to date even remotely supports anything like the Homeric account of Helen's abduction and the Greeks' revenge. To begin with, says Berve, there is the site of Troy itself. Shortly after the German amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann began digging into an 85-ft.-high mound called Hissarlik (Turkish for palace) in the northwestern corner of Turkey in 1870, he decided that he had unearthed the remnants of Priam's palace...
Berve exposes even more serious Achilles heels in Homer's account. At the time of the war, Troy was a neighbor of the Hittite empire. Yet the Hittite royal archives, consisting of thousands of clay tablets discovered in central Turkey in 1907, make no mention of a major campaign against the city. More damning perhaps is the absence of any reference to the war in ancient tablets found within Greece and written in the recently deciphered Linear B script. Berve points out, moreover, that only a few hundred years after Homer, the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides were already...
Watt's account ranges beyond Versailles to the tormented terrain under angry debate at the peace meetings-fast-changing, impoverished postwar Germany as it struggled to survive the chaos of surrender. Absorbed in private rancors, busy reshuffling peoples and national borders, the Allied statesmen paid little heed to the German scene. Historians have tended to follow their lead. Yet the obscure skirmishes for power that went on in Berlin and Munich may have done almost as much as the Versailles Treaty to shape the future course of Germany and Europe. The far left was pitted against the far right...