Word: goodnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Retired in 1965, Mountbatten kept busy as a committeeman and good-will ambassador, but lived alone-his wife had died suddenly five years before during a charity tour in North Borneo and his two daughters had long since married. "I'd like really to just be buried in my home town of Romsey," he placidly told a BBC interviewer who was preparing a film obituary last year. "The only thing I hope, it'll be a happy occasion...
...ebullient and ironic by turns, is obviously an attempt to break some new ground, both a modification of what Price has called "diary music" and a tentative rapprochement with "have fun" tunes. It may seem like a transitional record. But first cut to last, it sounds like a good time, the restless work of a front-rank pop talent...
Some changes represent an inclusion of facts previously suppressed. Some are simply the result of shifting historical interpretations, still highly contested or questionable. Inevitably a changing country will reshape its vision of its own past, for good or ill. Frances FitzGerald has kind words for some of the new texts - and techniques. Among them: so-called "inquiry" texts which, instead of presenting a strict chronology, offer primary sources organized around specific continuing historical issues: The People Make a Nation by Martin W. Sandier, Edwin C. Roswenc and Edward C. Martin delves extensively into such topics as "The Centralization of Power...
...Americans forget how violent and depraved other cultures have been. There is something hilarious, in a grisly way, about George Augustus Selwyn, the late 18th century London society figure and algolagnic whose morbid interest in human suffering sent him scurrying over to Paris whenever a good execution was scheduled. Americans may have displayed an unwholesome interest in the departure of Gary Gilmore two years ago, but that was nothing compared with the macabre fascinations, the public hangings, the Schadenfreud of other centuries. In the 17th century, Londoners sometimes spent their Sunday afternoons at Bedlam mocking the crippled and demented...
...choose our faculty for good looks--only our administrators," Rosovsky said...