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Viet Nam arrived in the American mind like some strange, violent hallucination, just when the nation was most prosperous and ambitious, shooting spaceships at the moon. Sweet America cracked open like a geode. The bizarre catastrophe of that war shattered so much in American life (pride in country, faith in...
One of the Eastern League's brightest prospects is Holyoke's 19-year-old shortstop Gustavo Polidor, a Venezuelan who speaks no English. The Millers lost his services for a night when he and the team crossed into Canada for a tour of Niagra Falls during a stay in Buffalo...
Stratton, who was in Cambridge last week, says that after making her fortuitous excursion to the attic, she returned to Harvard in search of an adviser but could find no frontier historian in the History Department. She finally appealed to Frank Freidel. Warren Professor of American History, inquiring if he...
Boorman set himself a task only slightly less daunting than the search for the Holy Grail: to tell, in 140 minutes, the epic of Arthur, Guenevere and the Knights of the Round Table. He has a millennium of tough acts to follow: Malory and Tennyson and Tolkien, Wagner and Lerner...
Reagan's expression turns serious when James starts to talk about a review of the 255 presidential boards and commissions, a number of which are clearly boondoggles. James cites what seems to be a particularly bad case: a new body to study the conditions of native Hawaiians. The nine...