Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...archbishop of the title, whom Cather called Jean Marie Latour, was the quixotic Jean Baptiste Lamy, first Bishop of Santa Fe. His affable Sancho Panza, Joseph Vaillant in the novel, was Joseph Machebeuf, later Bishop of Denver. After decades of research, Paul Horgan, novelist and Pulitzer-prizewinning historian (Great River), has attempted to separate the fictive from the actual. His triumph is due as much to a sense of place as to discernment of character. In his account, the shimmering, arid plateaus and the indomitable Gallic spirit are as palpable as they were in the novel-and as compelling...
...almost 40 years, Toynbee developed those same jotted notes into A Study of History, his 3 million-word, twelve-volume masterwork on the rise and fall of civilizations. And when he was done with his originally planned ten volumes, the historian noted the end as precisely as he had noted the beginning: "Finis. London, 1951, June 15,6:25 p.m., after looking once more this afternoon at Fra Angelico's picture of the beatific vision...
Died. Arnold Toynbee, 86, British historian whose twelve-volume masterwork, A Study of History, charts the rise and fall of man's civilizations; in York, England (see EDUCATION...
...Awakening of the middle third of the century had given way to a big sleep, and pastors looking for Congregationalists or Presbyterians complained that they found only "nothingarians" or "anythingarians." "The Revolutionary era was a period of decline for American Christianity as a whole," writes Yale's religious historian Sydney Ahlstrom. "The churches reached a lower ebb of vitality during the two decades after the end of hostilities than at any other time in the country's religious history." True, some of the old churchly teaching had spilled over into the culture itself; colonial children, for example, received...
...historian of the Rhodes Trust, himself an ex-warden of Rhodes House, calls the founder's vision one of "Oxford as a nursery of leaders, the energizing source of Empire and the womb of a thousand years of peace for mankind." Michael E. Kinsley '72, a second year law student and former Rhodes scholar, says that to the extent that Rhodes's idea was "to turn the future leaders of America into Anglophiles, it makes perfect sense for women to be admitted" to the foundation. Now that three Oxford colleges have gone co-ed, he says, there isn't really...