Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until the late '60s and early '70s there were so few researchers interested in the library's resources that the historian Anne Firor Scott could write in her journal as late as 1960, "Women's Archives very welcoming...glad to have somebody using their stuff." But things have changed--the greatest external influence on the library has no doubt been the national women's movement, which has increased curiosity about the history of women and legitimized the study of it. And with the naming of the Schlesinger Library as the official repository of the records of the National Organization...
...Symbolism is the thought of 1900," Art Historian Victor Beyer suggests in the catalogue, "while art nouveau is its gesture, its spasm." Even at this distance, one can sense how liberating the gesture must have seemed: an escape from the thick, relentlessly overstuffed world of Second Empire Paris into an imagery of free movement and rhythmic arabesque. The art nouveau line-whiplike, airy, eddying back on itself-was common to high art as well. A good example is Gauguin's portrait of the painter Roy, 1889, with its serpentine forms of background and hair (see color page...
...made a series of compositions based on brightly banded circles, one of which-The First Disc, 1912-is almost certainly the first abstract picture painted in France by a Frenchman. Born in 1885, a few years after Braque and Picasso, he tended to be conventionally pigeonholed by art historians as one of their more gifted epigones. And yet, as one can plainly see from the 140-odd paintings, drawings, prints and reliefs that make up the exhilarating Delaunay retrospective organized by French Art Historian Michel Hoog at the Orangerie in Paris this summer, the man belonged to no movement...
...fashion is now to dwell on the deadly analogies between the Roman world and our own," wrote Herbert Muller in The Uses of the Past, "in the suspicion that history may repeat itself after all." At first glance, some of those analogies seem not merely intriguing but obvious. Historian Michael Grant divides his The Fall of the Roman Empire into six broad categories: "The Failure of the Army," "The Gulfs Between the Classes," "The Credibility Gap," "The Partnerships That Failed," "The Groups That Opted Out" and "The Undermining Effort." The echoes of the Old World and this one are chilling...
...torturers; dictatorial regimes always manage to find enough people who ?convinced of the righteousness of their cause?will maim or murder under orders from an absolute authority. The torture subculture provides these people with a kind of identity. It is also a dramatic and telling proof of what Historian and Social Critic Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." The most inhumane cruelty of man to man can become routine if it is surrounded and buffered by an apparatus of normality...