Word: leon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prefabricated systems make me suspicious and science applied to history makes me wince. The nearest anyone has come to explaining history is, I think, Leon Trotsky, who both made history and wrote it. Cause in history, he said, 'refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents." The more one ponders that statement the more truth one finds...
...time when history as a discipline is becoming increasingly quantified and scientific, Tuchman has led a single-handed crusade for a humanistic approach "Prefabricated systems make me suspicious and science applied to history makes me wince, "Tuchman told the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 1963. Quoting Leon Trotsky, she added "Cause in history refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...
Another researcher, Dr. Leon Bisenberg '67, said that death rates show that minorities on the average live five years less than whites "for the sin of not being Anglo in America...
...Sands-Scott (H) d. Pulley-Friedman 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; 2. Loud-Grossman (H) d. Merritt-Weiss (default) ; 3. Adam Baren-Beckman (H) d. Sobel-Leon Hamul...
...machismo. She was a tiny, tough-mouthed daughter of a photographer of Hungarian-Jewish descent and a strikingly attractive woman from Oaxaca. Frida herself had a gamy beauty that drew lovers of both sexes. There seem to have been dozens of them, including Sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Leon Trotsky, the exiled Russian revolutionary who died in Mexico shortly after a Stalinist agent put the point of an ice ax through his head. Frida initiated the affair with Trotsky, not because she found "Piochitas" (little goatee) attractive but because she thought the trysts would be the perfect response to Rivera...