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...week when Tuchman was in Cambridge to deliver the Atherton lecture, the historian suggested a second reason for her runaway success--an explanation which reveals another dimension to Tuchman's histories, as well as the evolution her work has undergone. That explanation is her use of history as a "distant mirror"--a historic parallel of 20-th century problems...
...perhaps in her most recent history, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century, that Tuchman's parallel is most explicit. "The Bomb is very much a factor in everyone's mind," she says, "and I wanted to find out what was the effect on society of a massive destructive force." Tuchman had originally intended to focus the book on the Black Death," the most lethal disaster in recorded history" which ---between 1308 and 1350--killed an estimated one-third of the population living between India and Ireland. The book eventually expanded to cover the entire century, a period when "assumptions...
...Mondale is the man in charge. The self-doubt he felt in the distant past, he insists, is over. "The most difficult and mysterious thing about this," he says, staring intently at his guest, "is to persuade yourself you can be President." With special emphasis, he closed, "I've done that." Still, he must demonstrate that he can do more than make the right tactical moves. Everyone knows he is capable of that. Walter Mondale must show that he can step up to the tough ones all by himself...
...eight at halftime (on the unexpected outside shooting of 6-ft. 11-in. Thurl Bailey), the Cougars scored the first 15 points of the second half before the country coach, Lewis, 61, inexplicably slowed them down. State began to foul, Houston to miss; Whittenburg and Lowe started lofting distant jump shots. With half a minute left, the score stood tied...
...shifts within each country, and further disturbed the Reagan Administration's already troubled efforts in Latin America. There eventually will be a solution to the Falklands Crisis, but the most recent culmination of a century and a half of dispute has clearly pushed that off to somewhere in the distant future...