Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling classes. More specifically, although swayed by commoners and clergy, it was ruled by one monarch, 25 dukes, one marquess, 81 earls, twelve viscounts and 63 barons. In the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution brought with it the need for a new cultural catechism, and by 1843 Historian-Seer Thomas Carlyle was prophesying the emergence of new leaders: from an "Industrial Aristocracy as yet only half-alive, spellbound amid moneybags and ledgers," would arise noble captains of industry to lead Britain's work-hosts in the fight "against Chaos, Necessity and the Devils...
Swift Irregularity. So the current exhibition, Art of the Arab World, at Washington's Freer Gallery is not to be missed. Organized by Art Historian Esin Atil, from the encyclopedic stores of the gallery's own collection, the show contains 80 objects, many of superb aesthetic interest, ranging across a period of 800 years. It does not include Turkish or Persian work. As the name implies, the focus is on Arab art as such−mainly from Syria, Egypt and Iraq...
...past period that people somehow survived seems in retrospect more manageable than today's open-ended uncertainties. Daniel J. Boorstin, the social historian, believes that "the contemporary time is always the best time to live. It is a mistake to say the best age is one without problems...
...just what her husband, Playwright Harold Pinter, 44, has been for the past several months. Last week Merchant, 46, announced that she was divorcing the author of The Homecoming and The Caretaker after 19 years of marriage. The reason: his alleged love affair with Lady Antonia Fraser, 42, bestselling historian (Mary Queen of Scots) and willful social lioness of London. "It seems he is possessed by Lady Antonia," said Merchant. "She has cast a spell over him. How she can do it with six children to look after, I don't know...
...Englishman's truly distinctive disease is his cherished habit of waiting until the 13th hour," wrote British Historian Arnold Toynbee last November. Events have since proved him right. It took a serious pound scare and a disastrous inflation rate of 26% to prod Britain's Labor government into coming up with what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called "a plan to save our country" from a "general economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote...