Word: historian
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...would inevitably get worse before it occurred. By the late 1800s, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody literally preached a lifeboat ethic: "I look on the world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Save all you can.' " Biblical conservatives withdrew from activism. Evangelical Historian Timothy Smith describes this as the "Great Reversal," which persists to the present day. White Evangelical leaders, for example, did little to support civil rights legislation in the 1960s...
DIED. S.L.A. Marshall, 77, a towering military historian who analyzed all the wars of modern America; after a long illness; in El Paso, Texas. "Slam" Marshall was seldom far from the sound of gunfire. After growing up in El Paso, he became a combat infantry officer in World War I. He covered the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II, he became the chief combat historian in the Central Pacific and Europe. Out of his experiences in the Korean War came his most esteemed books, The River and the Gauntlet and Pork Chop Hill. His writing was distinguished...
Gray, daughter of Yale historian Hajo Holborn, is an expert in European intellectual history who was educated at Bryn Mawr and Harvard. As acting head of Yale, she has slashed fearlessly at Yale's budget and also is weathering a bitter two-month strike by the university's 1,400 blue-collar workers. "She's head and shoulders over the other internal candidates," says one respected faculty member. Yet, he adds, "many of the Old Blues, on whom the university is dependent for much of its future funding, would never accept a woman as president...
...history painter as well as factual witness; and there he could be very puzzling indeed. The debate on Courbet has been stepped up by a magnificent retrospective that opened this fall at the Grand Palais in Paris and will move to London in January. With a catalogue by Art Historian Helene Toussaint, it brings together more than 140 paintings and drawings, centered around the huge machines that normally hang in the Louvre: A Burial at Ornans and (all 11½ ft. by 19 ft. of it) The Painter's Studio...
...least one scientist has come to Ptolemy's defense. Astronomer and Science Historian Owen Gingerich of Harvard admits that the Syntaxis contains "some remarkably fishy numbers." But he is convinced that any deception was honestly motivated, and that Ptolemy, like many a modern-day scientist, merely chose to publish the data that best supported his theories. These ideas are outdated anyway. Ptolemy's theories were all aimed at proving that the earth was the center of the universe. By 1543 Copernicus had proved Ptolemy wrong...