Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman as "the most discussed animal in the universe." A popular subject in anything from sonnets to surgery, she has been serenaded, dissected, romanticized and analyzed by generations of literati, medical men, scientists and students. If these men fixed their eyes intently on the figure of woman, however, the historian remained somewhat more aloof. Usually, in his considered judgement, women were essentially unimportant to his field ('the study of man'), and he dealt with them incidentally...
...Employment, the number of domestics has declined dramatically from some 2.5 million four years ago to 1.5 million today. The reasons: generally low pay, few benefits, transportation difficulties, low status and the easy alternative of going on welfare. "There is still a stigma attached to being a domestic," says Historian David M. Katzman, author of Seven Days a Week (Oxford University Press; $14.95), a new book about household help in the U.S. from 1870 to 1920. "Cleaning women," he adds, "suffer from isolation and an atomization of work. They have none of the camaraderie that women in offices share...
...library became his refuge and salvation. Between the wars, the don's reputation as a researcher and writer grew; T.S. Eliot sought his articles on Marxism, presented with a historian's detachment; W.H. Auden befriended him. By the '50s he was famous. Today Rowse laces his conversation with recollections of the mighty: "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt spoke much clearer English than Winston, who had a speech impediment as a child and always lisped somewhat...
Last week the largest retrospective of Mark Rothko's paintings went on view in Manhattan. Organized by Art Historian Diane Waldman for the Guggenheim Museum, it will travel later to Houston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles. It consists of almost 200 paintings, spanning a career of more than 40 years. They run from his first tentative exercises in the manner of Milton Avery, his mentor, whose soft, vibrating patches of color had an indelible effect on Rothko; thence to the curious, stilted subway scenes of the 1930s, and to the totemic abstracts of vaguely identifiable figures-in-landscape which were...
...Russian-born economist and economic historian, Gerschenkron came to the United States in 1938 and taught at the University of California, Berkeley until 1942. He joined the Faculty in 1948 and taught here until his retirement...