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June 3, 9:22 p.m.--Outside Mather House on Flagg Street, an unknown person set tire to two foam mattresses. With assistance from the Harvard Police department, the Cambridge Fire Department extinguished the flames...
Harvard students have begun to clean up debris from yards and basements of ten Harvard-owned properties on Flagg and Harvard students working-for the Hunneman Real Estate Co., the University's realtor, are cleaning out trash and installing fire extinguishers and smoke and heat detectors in occupied buildings, many of which Harvard has not inspected for years, Sally Zeckhauser, acting director of real estate, said yesterday...
...historian, Fried is a mild revisionist who sees American history as a process of declension from the egalitarian ardor that sparked the American revolution. Fried's characters, in whose mouths versimilitude passes for verity, run the gamut from out-and-out radicals like Anthony Flagg Prescott, hwo finds even FDR's second New Deal unabashedly capitalistic, to reactionaries like Timothy Prescott, Tory poet. Still, it isn't hard to tell where Fried's own sympathies lie; in Julian's words, "Mine was a family of antinomians, dissenters, gadflies and nay-sayers." Most of the Prescotts, at least the most articulate...
...were not in a position to make the kind of political history Fried is concerned with. (Each is written in a genre particular to the times and events it describes.) Samuels Book of Confessions is complemented by the journals of Basil Litchflied Prescott, transcendentalist; on the other hand, Bartholomew Flagg Prescott's contribution comprises a series of dispatches, ostensibly briefing Lincoln on the calibre of his various generals, while Stewart Rantoul os represented by muckraking articles and his correspondence with Teddy Roosevelt...
...Anthony Flagg's Diary of the New Deal Years is engrossing for different reasons. The longest segment of the book, it painstakingly details a radical braintruster's reactions to the gradual development and stultification of the New Deal, and then America's cautious steps from isolationism to World War II. It is a stunningly realized picture of a brilliant, politically calculating President whose chief skill resides in getting all his various staffers, each in his own way, to serve his turn...