Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traditional kind of historian." Unlike Arnold Toynbee, he saw no pattern in the past, evolved no sweeping philosophy of history. "Philosophy must be brought to history, it cannot be extracted from it. And I have no philosophy of my own to bring, beyond a love of things good and a hatred of things evil...
Actually, Trevelyan brought a good deal more. Good history, he believed, was never all science; it had to be literature, too. To be read, it had to be fascinating; it was the duty of the historian to make it so. He could not do this without being himself part poet. For "in that strange relation of past and present, poetry is always inherent, even in . . . Greek potsherds and Roman stones, in Manor rolls and Parliamentary reports...
...know the value of good books ... of Latin, and algebra . . . may be forgiven if we sometimes show just a little irritation when the 'traditional' subjects are made the scapegoat, by implication at least...
...shorthanded post-impressionist manners of the art-school artists. Sniffed she: "Art is done for beauty. Not that grotesque stuff. A picture is supposed to speak its own piece, the same as a billboard. If you have to stop and ask questions . . . it's no good...
...tension. This rocket, the Viking II, had misfired two weeks before, and a rocket that has once misfired makes everyone a little nervous. Sometimes rockets "walk" (i.e., move sidewise) on firing; sometimes they explode prematurely. On such occasions the control blockhouse, which looks like a concrete igloo, is a good place...