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Historians in our society have the awesome and tedious burden of recounting events with accuracy. Handlin, University Professor of History and dean of American historians, has found fault with the work of some of his predecessors and colleagues. Oscar Handlin is a disappointed...
Handlin has even found the recipe. Take a family, black not Italian, he says and trace it back to Africa. Make sure it's your history recalled by your grandmother and no one will know the difference because you are its living witness. Handlin says Haley really added yeast to his story when he devoted "85 per cent of his attention to the period before the Civil War, the time least subject to reader verification, the time most readily freighted with nostalgia and fantasy for their benefit...
...their racist attitude to influence their writing of history, Handlin says. Nonetheless, they deserve no more than a slap on the wrist. After all, these works "were products of serious scholarship, had respectable scientific underpinnings, and earned respect as useful contributions to the solution of current problems." Some people found them useful, anyway--state legislators held up these books as supporting "evidence" for Jim Crow laws. But Handlin excuses "the occasional racist slurs" of the 1940s and '50s, calling them "less troubling than the injustice" a few historians served earlier ethnic peoples by falsifying their history "to gratify the passions...
...down a swimming pool slide arm-first; 71. Dune buggy accident; 72. car accident; 73. airplane crash; 74. gunshot wounds as a result of duel in native P.R.; 75. asphyxiation; 76. leukemia; 77. knife wounds; 78. mysteriously disappeared after being let off train just before Niagara Falls bridge--body found in river days later; 79. killed by pitched ball; 80. Gary, IN; 81. Frank Duffy and Sam McDowell to the Giants; 82. Nettles and Jerry Moses went to the Yankees for John Ellis, Jerry Kenney, Charlie Spikes, and Rosendo Torres; 83. Willie Montanez and Jim Browning went to the Phillies...
...were mere enatter. Who is he? "A pilgrim of faith," he answered in Boston. A mission to America, "a successor of Peter." The Pope who lived, who lives. The Pope who came with a message and left America all by itself, and suddenly there is a catharsis to be found in the ponderous eyes of those who watched--bums, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Moonies, pagans, Carters--that is rooted beneath the careers and ambitions and the cynical laughs: the hope that the Pope was right...