Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right of being a historian. A journalist writes history in the best of ways, that is in the moment that history takes place. He lives history, he touches history with his hands, he looks at it with his eyes, he listens to it with his ears. Listen, Herodotus in his day was a damned f__ing journalist...
...hobbies. A native of Brooklyn, Brownmiller attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan. She appeared in two off-Broadway plays and worked as a Newsweek researcher. Studying nights at the Jefferson School of Social Science, she took a course taught by Herbert Aptheker, the American Communist historian and specialist in Southern studies. In the historian's thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first time in my life that rape was a political act." She joined the civil rights movement, working two years...
...show is the result of three years' research by Art Historian Margit Rowell, whose catalogue-assisted with material from another student of Kupka's art, Meda Mladek-becomes the definitive work so far on this little-known, uneven but (at best) engrossing artist...
Crabbed Hand. The Reith Diaries, painstakingly edited by Oxford Historian Charles Stuart, is a 525-page distillation of more than 2 million words that Reith had written in his tiny, crabbed handwriting over a 60-year period. Most frequently, Reith's targets were people who stood between him and the pinnacles of power that he thought were his natural habitat. His first run-ins were with the BBC board of governors. He dismissed Lord Clarendon, the first chairman, as "a stupid ass" and Board Member Mrs. Ethel Snowden as "a truly terrible creature...
...they were on promoting new ones. A revisionist ecstasy is in the air, and one of the more important artists to benefit from it (if posthumously) is Sculptor Elie Nadelman. A definitive retrospective of some 150 sculptures and drawings opened last week at the Whitney Museum, organized by Art Historian John Baur, director of the Whitney until his retirement last year...