Word: historians
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...past. One involves a happy day of love-making sometime in the late '60s--plucked out of the past to provide a relief from the tension that had been building in the book. And the last few pages relate an encounter Mee had with Arnold Toynbee, the British historian, in the early '70s. At the meeting, Mee put forth his elaborate theories about the course of Western civilization, but Toynbee apparently dozed through the tirade and didn't catch a word. Mee certainly doesn't take himself too seriously...
Unknown Scribe. On the Mormon side, the church's historian, Leonard Arrington, responded that the new attack on the Book of Mormon meant "absolutely nothing." The writing of the unknown scribe, he said, "follows on the same page and precedes on another page material written" by others. How, he asked, could twelve pages written by Spalding match the paper of pages that precede and follow them...
...reason that Americans do not seem to focus on such problems as before may be that they have come to understand just how complicated some issues can be, how difficult to solve. Says Harvard Historian Frank Freidel: "More Americans are better educated now than ever before and more knowledgeable about national issues. They see many more facets of a problem." That can of course be a disabling kind of sophistication. So can the fact that Americans have been schooled since the early '60s to a certain cynicism about in formation from their leaders. Says California Pollster Mervin Field...
...Wilson, in the judgment of his chronicler, was at once the keeper of a rigid conscience and the creature of a political system that worked only when he bent that conscience to conform. Wilson found that the power of his office could carry him only so far. Then, the historian declared, the President either had to combine influence with compromise or, defending virtue, lose his way. Carter, "the missionary," travels a hazardous course...
...unemployed," he wrote in 1887, "but in the general combination of the workers for the freedom of labor-for the REVOLUTION." This belief permeates the 24 volumes of Morris' collected works. Rebellion was the connective tissue of his life. For reclamation, Morris needed the attentions of a Marxist historian: that event did not come until 1955, with the publication of Edward Thompson's William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary...