Word: historians
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Died. Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, 87, British soldier, diplomat and war historian; in London. A lifelong Francophile, Spears was sent as Winston Churchill's personal representative to the crumbling French Third Republic in 1940, later wrote about the fall of France in Assignment to Catastrophe. Spears devised Charles de Gaulle's last-minute escape to London and helped him organize the Free French forces. Spears' first wife was the American-born novelist Mary Borden (Margin of Error), who died...
...doctor has come down with the disease; the historian has fallen prey to the shortsight that he attributed to his subjects. Stott's chronicle is infected with the type of superficial thinking and weak-minded analysis that an overemphasis on "authenticity" and the "universality" of feelings created in the culture of the thirties...
...Watergate. Social Scientist David Riesman talked about higher education; Radcliffe President Matina Horner discussed the outlook for women; Bernard Frieden, director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, the scarcity of housing. The other seminar participants: Law Professor Paul Freund, Harvard Business School Dean Lawrence Fouraker, Historian Bernard Bailyn, Sociologist Gene Sharp, John F. Kennedy Library Director Dan Fenn Jr., Head of Harvard Russian Research Center Adam Ulam, and Harold Demone Jr., professor of social welfare at Harvard Medical School. At a Monday-night dinner in Boston, the TIME contingent met with Pat Caddell, a young pollster...
...course consists of 20 "lectures," which are printed every Thursday in 258 newspapers, having a combined circulation of 19.5 million. They are written by such prominent "faculty" members as Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, Yale Economist Henry C. Wallich and M.I.T. Physicist Philip Morrison. The articles are all entitled "America and the Future of Man" (the formal name of the course) and cover history, psychology, sociology, social ethics and political science. In last week's installment, for example, Garrett J. Hardin, professor of human ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, reviewed the ethical and social problems...
Near Thing. Finally, about half of Moyers' shows are conversations with people who view public life from angles not much reported on television. He has talked things over this season with, among others, Black Poet Maya Angelou, Labor Leader Harry Bridges and Historian Daniel Boorstin. Last week, Moyers interviewed Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, who has been carrying on a love-hate relation ship with the U.S. for more than 30 years...