Word: higham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anti-Catholicism persists, all right. But it is an intricate bigotry, more complicated than racism or antiSemitism, and its origins lie deep in American history. It would be strange if a few years of ecumenical feeling - or simple religious indifference - could obliterate all trace of what Historian John Higham of Johns Hopkins University has called "the most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history...
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...Charles Higham's Kate (Norton; $7.95) displays a similar flaccidity. "Hepburn stood back nobly," begins the chronicle, "not asking to see the book in manuscript or proof . . . not even calling me to see how I was progressing." Hepburn's celebrated diffidence was never more wisely employed. Higham's hushed approach, his claim that "she is the greatest actress of our time . . . because her honesty demands she must suffer nakedly in front of our eyes" is incense, not biography...