Word: historians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EISENHOWER: AT WAR 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower. Ike's grandson emerges as a formidable historian and biographer in this study of the European campaign and of what the general knew and when he knew...
...used a new computer-model program to juxtapose the famous painting with Leonardo's only known self-portrait. Writes Schwartz: "The relative locations of the nose, mouth, chin, eyes and forehead in one precisely matched the other." A number of art experts, however, remain unconvinced. Says Columbia University Art Historian James Beck: "As sure as the moon is not made of green cheese, this is not Da Vinci in drag...
Margaret Randall has spent much of her life traveling. Her journeys as a writer, oral historian and left-wing activist have taken her to Mexico, North Viet Nam, Nicaragua and Cuba. Today she has settled in at the University of New Mexico as a teacher of American and women's studies. But if the Immigration and Naturalization Service has its way, she may have a bit more traveling...
...joke around the University of Chicago Divinity School: An outsider phones, asking to speak with Church Historian Martin E. Marty. A secretary says, "I'm sorry, but Professor Marty is writing a book." The caller responds, "That's all right. I'll hold...
Meanwhile, Orsay found its director at the Beaubourg: Francoise Cachin, a brilliant, Sorbonne-educated art historian whose specialty is Manet. The first issue she had to settle was the scope of the museum. What did 19th century mean? There was no way the Louvre was going to surrender its masterpieces of early 19th century classicism and romanticism. So Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement. Cachin, Laclotte and the new museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner...