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...Catholic Church in the city faces its greatest challenge today in adjusting to the changing social structure of America's urban centers, Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, told the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club last night...
Clive is known for his study, "Scotch Reviewers: The 'Edinburgh Review' 1802-1815," published in 1957. With Oscar Handlin, he edited Gottlieb Mittelbergor's "Journey to Pennsylvania in 1750." He is currently working on a volume entitled "The World of Macaulay...
...harsh throughout, screaming lines she should properly mutter or let fall without ado. 'Anne Bernstein, as Nora, is too tragic for a 14-year old girl, and she seems inclined to sob or sigh when she feels like it rather than in response anyone else's lines. David Handlin does not appear to know how he should act, but he has the grace to underplay, and his Bartley comes out natural, if a little weak...
Conflicting Traditions. The book that beat out such possibilities as Oscar Handlin's panoramic The Americans or William and Bruce Cation's Two Roads to Sumter is a meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Mass., founded by Puritan settlers in 1638. Generations of orators have sweepingly proclaimed the early towns of New England "a unique experiment in self-government," while many historians have tacitly assumed that the early settlers brought with them a broadly homogeneous body of English law and administrative methods. Historian Powell's achievement...
...identity is no longer circumscribed as it was in previous generations, Handlin said. "Everybody must belong to something, a church or synagogue, but each man can essentially write his own ticket," he stated...