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...case in point is British historian Hugh Thomas. With Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (Simon and Schuster; 812 pages; $30), Lord Thomas, author of what is arguably the finest study in English of the Spanish Civil War, has taken the heady risk of challenging a landmark of 19th century American historiography: William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). Thomas' account is richer in detail than Prescott's, more balanced in its assessment of the Mexica (pronounced mesheeca; the author insists that this is a more authentic name for the conquered people than...
...city of Cambridge is home to the finest institutions of learning in the world and Radcliffe has distinguisheditself among them," he said. "No two words are assynonymous with women's history as RadcliffeCollege...
...beside myself. I thought I had sent my child to the nation's finest institution of higher learning. This past weekend--Junior Parents Weekend, no less--I learned otherwise. I am appalled. I am outraged, shocked, saddened, and irate. How long has it been this way, and why wasn't I told? Am I alone in my anger, or do others feel the same fury? It is simply atrocious, Norma. Simply atrocious. Mrs. Robert McClary Tulsa...
...frighteningly real. The woman standing in front of me was no wide eyes first year. She was a recent graduate of a liberal arts college who was planning to pursue her Ph.D. in English literature at one of the finest universities in the country. I had always admired her for her sharp mind, her sense of humor, her ability to always seem so completely put together and at ease...
...outgrowth of the feline, even feminine, nature of many of his heroes (and most of his villains). But his raddled face, Einstein coiffure and teetery walk are new and, surprisingly from this most mannered of actors, feel free of mannerism. The verbal cut and thrust between them is the finest now on Broadway -- elegantly bloodless and as ferocious as a slaughterhouse...