Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this fall, 200 residents volunteered the first day. In an hour, notices of marches or meetings can be printed and hand-distributed to every house and apartment in Southie. "When we get our mind on something, the whole community pitches in," explained one resident. Says Harvard Historian Stephan Thernstrom: "The solidarity in South Boston is one of a people trapped there." The bitterest irony in Southie's implacable determination to keep blacks out of South Boston High is that many residents frankly concede that the 71-year-old school is one of the city's worst...
...recent weeks, Henry Kissinger has sometimes talked rather more like a Harvard historian than a pragmatic diplomat-negotiator. To aides, newsmen and foreign officials, Kissinger allowed that he feared the possibility of political instability in parts of Europe and that some nations, as a result of the economic crisis, might in desperation embrace authoritarian forms of government...
...with TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, Kissinger seemed to be more hopeful than previous reports had suggested. Sitting in an alcove of Cairo's marble-and-alabaster Tahra Palace during his two-day visit with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the Secretary of State conceded that for a historian, the signs might point in the direction of a decline of the West's political systems. But as a statesman, Kissinger emphasized: "I do not accept the decline of the West as a historical inevitability. I'm trying to be realistic and face what is ahead...
Eugene Genovese succeeds in recreating the lost world of slaves and slaveholders in large part because he's thought about all this. As America's best-known Marxist historian, Genovese thinks of all history as a story of people in classes--classes whose relations are always historically unique because they're always changing. Because he believes his own society's ruling institutions and beliefs couldn't have existed before its ruling class did, and that neither the institutions nor the class need last forever, Genovese can treat people from a dead society as equals. He doesn't need to devote...
What Leonardo had in mind, apparently, was to produce a handbook on the operating principles of machinery, and not - as an earlier guild mechanic might have done it - simply a compendium of useful gadgets. This, as Art Historian Ludwig Heydenreich argues, was a turning point in the history of engineering itself. If Leonardo's designs had been made public instead of resting in his notebooks, they would certainly have transformed the extremely crude face of Renaissance mechanics, bringing it to the pitch of sophistication the Chinese had reached four centuries earlier. That did not happen...