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Levin's doctoral thesis analysed the histories of the 19th century masters, George Bancroft, William Prescott, John Motley, and Francis Parkman, all of whom were contemporary to one another, and all of whom where Harvard graduates, members of Boston's Brahmin caste, and writers of superb narrative gifts. Out of...
Died. John Perona, 64, improbable arbiter of international café society, an Italian peasant's son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo's sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city's...
At that point, up before the American Council rose a gentile with a controversial notion. Said British Historian Arnold Toynbee: If Jew and non-Jew alike were to give up all feelings of ethnic "apartheid," then many gentiles would convert to Judaism. "Judaism presents Jewish monotheism in its original form...
For centuries, caste-bound Britain regarded higher learning as a rite of the rich and a privilege of the few. Even by 1945, only one-tenth of 1% of the population attended universities-mainly the well born, who "went up" to Oxford and Cambridge and on to the "Establishment" that...
What sundered the feudal serenity of the black-white relationship in Africa? Not an upper white caste, insists the baroness, but a lower white class: "We should have looked at the quality of those who settled in Africa rather than get as many whites settled as possible. We should have...