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This is a friendly, no-account movie full of intermittent high spirits. Although it never fulfills the richest possibilities in the raffish misadventures of a barnstorming black baseball team of the 1930s, it does come close from time to time.
The Declaration of Independence is a triumph not only for Hancock but for the whole Boston delegation; yet their triumph is shadowed by the absence of James Otis. Accused of treason by the British customs commissioners in 1769, he publicly denounced them as liars. One of them attacked him with...
1763 Feb. 10. After nine years of intermittent fighting along American borders, French and Indian War ends. France cedes all claims on Canada to Britain, as well as Louisiana territories east of the Mississippi. Victorious Britain nonetheless has added ? 100 million to its national debt.
The increase in privateering has been slow and intermittent, like the war itself. The first official use of Continental privateers occurred outside Boston last October, even before the congressional authorization. General Washington, lacking any naval cruisers to attack the British ships bringing supplies to the forces besieged inside the city...
To be sure, Harvard still has many "other-directed" individuals who are genuinely committed to serving rather than attaining and to whom law and medical education means far more than security, status and the chance to rise above the rabble. But the patch is not an easy one to hoe...