Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's Chicago meeting, E.L.I.M. delegates generally agreed to stay and fight within the church rather than break with it in open schism-at least until conservatives actively move to throw them out. Respected Church Historian Martin Marty-a board member of E.L.I.M.-argued that before that could happen, the detested conservative leadership might simply fall apart, largely because of its inherent divisiveness. "I don't believe the two official seminaries will survive," he says. "They will have to combine. The financial devastation will start showing soon. Careers are gone, families are divided. Any congregation that gets...
...answer opened last week in the conservative and flintily traditional community of Newport, R.I. It is an exhibition named "Monumenta," organized by Art Historian Sam Hunter and a staff of his graduate students from Princeton and backed by an enthusiastic Newport resident named William Crimmins. Fifty-four large works by 40 artists have been installed on the island's shores, in its shopping center and around the gardens of its mansions: an encyclopedia of large-scale sculpture from the U.S. and Europe. "Monumenta" runs through Oct. 13, providing an unexpected cultural foil to the America's Cup races...
...join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake (Bronowski himself was a poet and playwright), he recently conceived and narrated The Ascent of Man, a highly acclaimed television series on the triumph of the human race, which will be aired in the U.S. this...
...Historian Henry Steele Commager is Simpson Professor at Amherst College and the author of some 40 books on the American experience...
Well, then, a reader concludes, did the French win the French and Indian War? Not really, says Historian Thomas. A third force, not taken into account by either side, entered the picture. This was the royal house of Stuart, in the glittering person and presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender and son of the exiled Stuart King James III. The handsome, 39-year-old prince was beaten at Culloden in 1746, when the infamous Duke of Cumberland broke the power of the Scottish clans. He fled to France with the price of ? 30,000 on his head...