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...Thomas Hutchinson--the Tory governor of Revolutionary Massachusetts whose ordeal Bernard Bailyn sets forth with intelligence and sympathy--would have known exactly what to think. He's have had a well-reasoned, documented analysis proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the whole business was the work of a few hard-core agitators, and that the National Guard's deplorable mistake, like the deplorable war it appeared to safeguard, merely played into the agitator's hands. Unlike Mr. Balser, the principal, Hutchinson could have expressed this analysis convincingly, and acted on it rationally, with historical erudition and political astuteness...
...radicals--their belief that only constant, militant vigilance and strict adherence to governmental forms limited by internal balances could check the corruption power inevitably causes among its possessors. Ideological Origins is a book remarkable for its wit and its style, as well as its persuasiveness. The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson is only slightly less well written, but it approaches the Revolution from the other side--from the point of view of someone whom the Revolutionaries saw only as a traitor to his country and would-be murderer of its liberties...
From his own point of view, Hutchinson was neither of these and his exile from a hostile Massachusetts caused him deep sorrow. "Nothing can be more polite than my entertainment," he wrote of life at an English country estate...
...Hutchinson acknowledged this week that he has talked to Bok about the mastership, but refused to comment further; Bok said it would be "terribly inappropriate for me to comment at this time." And Forbes Maner '74, chairman of the Winthrop master search committee, said Wednesday he expects to hear who the new master is "today or tomorrow...
...Hutchinson, an associate of Winthrop House, is at least the fifth person to whom Bok has offered the job, sources said this week...