Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. George Macaulay Trevelyan, 86, Britain's most eminent historian, great-nephew of Lord Macaulay, famed 19th century political satirist, a Cambridge professor who published his first work at 23, was best known for his monumental English Social History, which for some 20 years has been a standard text...
The first provision in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights bars "an establishment of religion." Last week the Supreme Court handed down a decision affirming that provision-and thereby brought upon itself a deluge of denunciation. Eminent clergymen attacked the decision as "shocking" and "tragic." Members of Congress...
He strongly influenced John Constable and Washington Allston, and he might have made something special "in the painting way" out of Robert Fulton and Samuel F. B. Morse had not the impulse to invent the steamboat and the telegraph taken priority with them. When he died in 1820, a few...
Howells argued eloquently and wisely that novelists must abandon fairy-tale heroics and write of the commonplace. But he could not see what James knew instinctively-that there was another side to reality, that life "often risks combinations and effects that make one rub one's eyes." Life as...
I hesitate to take issue with so eminent a Shakespearean as Mark Van Doren, but his statement that the Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings...