Word: historians
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Died. Mary Handlin, 62, social historian who, with her husband Oscar, a professor of history at Harvard, was coauthor of six books on American civilization; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. The Handlins in The Dimensions of Liberty (1961) explored the idea of freedom as defined in the U.S. In Facing Life: Youth and the Family in American History (1971), they traced the patterns of relationships within the American family, spanning 300 years, and concluded that the continually advancing age at which young people leave home has unfortunate consequences for everyone involved...
Paul Morgan, Litt.D., historian and author of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Lamy of Santa...
...classic study of man at play, Homo Ludens, Historian Johan Huizinga described it as "a free activity standing quite consciously outside 'ordinary life,' " animated by "the impulse to create orderly form." Once the idea of order goes, so goes the game itself- and its fans. A report commissioned by the Ontario provincial government on hockey violence in Canada concluded: "When the evidence strongly indicates that there is a conscious effort to sell the violence in hockey to enrich a small group of show business entrepreneurs at the expense of a great sport (not to mention the corruption...
Perpetual Discontent. Only one craftsman could work on the kimono since, as Textile Historian Nishimura Hyōbu remarks in the catalogue notes, "a change of workers - or even a brief illness - could result in an irreparable alteration of the rhythm of the tying and the evenness of the results." The knots took more than a year to tie and another year to undo, one by one. Because the process cost so much, the making of sō-hitta was outlawed by the Japanese sumptuary laws of 1683, which attempted to control extravagance in clothing. But the tie-dyed kimono...