Word: brinton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American romantics of the '60s shared with their forerunners a vision of profound, if unspecific change that would regenerate mankind. In urging the abolition of the common law in England and the repudiation of the national debt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, according to Historian Crane Brinton, "saw nothing between himself and his dream." A poetic-minded radical of the '60s, Carl Oglesby, described the comparable Utopian stance of today's revolutionary: "Perhaps he has no choice and he is pure fatality: perhaps there is no fatality and he is pure will. His position may be invincible, absurd, both...
...Robespierre signaled the end of the Reign of Terror and opened a fresh era of calm and consolidation. It was the year II in the new French revolutionary calendar, and the month was named Thermidor. In his classic analysis, The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Harvard historian Crane Brinton called Thermidor "a convalescence from the fever of revolution...
...FRIEND, OBADIAH, by Brinton Turkic (Viking; $3.95). A sequel to Obadiah the Bold, the book shows the friendship between a sea gull and a young Quaker boy on the island of Nantucket. Splendid watercolor and pencil illustrations...
...ability to do anything, an attitude that seems alien to the old academic virtue of modest contemplation at the foot of the savants. Celebrated professors like John Kenneth Galbraith and George Wald no longer command the ardent reverence once enjoyed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Perry Miller and Crane Brinton, the superstars of the '50s. Explains Mike Tompkins, a junior from Paris who is both a Presidential and a National Merit Scholar: "There are many admirable men at Harvard and they are appreciated. But we have very few heroes these days...
History 134a, a legendary gut under the late Crane Brinton '19, was last year's largest course with 765 students. This year, taught by H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History, it has dropped off the list, along with Math...