Word: historian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remove his name from the title page of the book. Bland, convinced that Backhouse's plea was just another example of his over-humility, refused. Bland was convinced his decision would be vindicated by history. Now, a recent biography of Backhouse, written by Hugh Trevor-Roper, the noted British historian, suggests it might have been better for both collaborators in the long run if history had lost...
Robert Barltrop-an ex-boxer and historian of the British Socialist Party -has written a vivid summary of London's early years. But he worries continually about whether his man was a good Marxist or not. Meaning: Is Martin Eden a crude but effective indictment of the bourgeoisie, or just a disguised autobiography whose motive was spite...
...Tuscany hills, where his bookish habits have earned him the sobriquet "the Schoolboy." Westerby carries the spy's classic cards of identity: robust health, womanizing instincts and moral numbness. With words that could have been set to music by Sir Edward Elgar, Smiley reminds his operative of a historian who "wrote of generations that are born into debtors' prisons and spend their lives buying their way to freedom. I think ours is such a generation. Don't you?" Jerry laughs: "Sport, for heaven's sake. You point me and I'll march. Okay...
...followed famed historian Frederick Jackson Turner to Harvard where he expanded on his mentor's well-known "frontier thesis" of American history and in so doing established himself as one of the foremost American historians...
Bhajan has his critics-and they are severe. Many traditional Sikhs insist that yoga has no place in their religion. Sikh Historian Trilochan Singh says Bhajan's synthesis of Sikhism and Tantrism is "a sacrilegious hodgepodge." Far more important, High Priest Jaswant Singh, a leader of the Sikhs in eastern India and comparable in status to Bhajan Backer Tohra, last week denounced Bhajan's claims. He and his council professed to be "shocked" at Bhajan's "fantastic theories." Yoga, Tantrism and the "sexual practices" taught by Bhajan, the council declared, are "forbidden and immoral...