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...wounds were still red when Patrick Higonnet's bid for tenure came up in the Spring of that academic year. Higonnet was a Continental historian who specialized in modern France and could also cover Austria-Hungary. The Department was looking for someone to replace Crane Brinton, who had taught French history. It also needed someone to do Austria. Higonnet seemed...
...Historian Crane Brinton, in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, predicted by 1970-decidedly prematurely -the start of "plain, unblushing repression of much that our Freudian age regards as irrepressible. Indeed a partial return to public and private Victorian decencies...
...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...