Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buff Coats & Breeches. For them, passionate engagement led to a view of history where great men mattered as much as great forces, where men did not bow to impersonal trends but tried to bend them. Inside the trade, historians class these men as romantics, and Schlesinger is one of their lineal descendants. He sees history as Carlyle did -a panorama of "men in buff coats and breeches, with color in their cheeks, with passions in their stomachs, and the idioms, features and vitalities of very men." The romantic influence waned toward the end of the century, and most historians bowed...
Died. Katharine Susan Anthony, 87, bestselling biographer of some of history's more notable women, a onetime Wellesley College geometry teacher and psychiatry buff who enthusiastically delved into such psyches as those of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette and Louisa May Alcott, caused a furor with her 1945 The Lambs, in which she theorized that Essayists Charles and Mary Lamb turned to writing as a sublimation of their incestuous love; following a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Almost all the huzzahing had been for Princeton. Among Ivy coaches only John yovicain and Columbia's Buff Donelli joined the Crimson's Andy Beyar in giving Dartmouth a chance against a team that was ranked 15th in the nation...
Blindman's Buff. Man has always held the night in terror?from Homer's day, when the warriors in the Iliad besought Zeus to "deliver from darkness the sons of the Achaeans," through Biblical times, when God's direst threat was to "set darkness upon thy land," right down to the present, on those rare occasions when he encounters...
Even so, New Yorkers assailed by chill night?and, for a frozen instant, silence?reacted almost sportively, as if it were all a gigantic game of blindman's buff. In soaring office buildings and fetid subway tunnels, beleaguered commuter trains and jampacked terminals, they joked and chattered, waiting from minute to minute for the reviving whine of dynamos, the first stutter of returning light. And, incredulously, they began to realize at last that they had been transported to Caliban's world, a vast, trackless cave without warmth or wheels, without hot food or the lights of home...