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...World War I. In all the subsequent analysis of the Cuban crisis, scholars and participants have dwelt on nuclear balances, geography and diplomatic tactics. It just could be that Barbara Tuchman, author of The Guns of August, was as important as the U.S. Navy. It could be, too, that Lord David Cecil, who wrote Kennedy's favorite book, Melbourne, the biography of the youthful Queen Victoria's Prime Minister, and Winston Churchill, in his role as chronicler of the life of his ancestor Marlborough, were as important as the trusted aides who kept long vigils in the White...
...broke her nose again, with his fist. For a while the strange marriage worked. She wrote her bestseller Boston Adventure. He converted from Episcopalianism to Roman Catholicism and labored at his poetry as if salvation depended on it. At 29 he published his first book of poems, entitled Lord Weary's Castle, a quirky, indelible mix of Boston locales and Old Testament theology. A Pulitzer Prize followed...
Though the election did not turn out to London's liking, Prior downplayed the results. "These are setbacks which have been present in Northern Ireland for centuries," he observed. "I don't expect to put them right in a year. We just go patiently on." Lord Gowrie, Prior's deputy in the province, pointed out that some accommodation must now be reached with the Catholics, perhaps by enlisting the aid of the Republic of Ireland...
Acropolis taken by Lord Elgin at the beginning of the 19th century and now permanently housed in the British Museum. Although a United Nations committee recently voted for their return to Greece, British authorities, and the marbles, are unmoved...
...that someone was about to shoot the beast, and Robert Lowell, who, in the poem "Skunk Hour," tied cars to the sickness of the nation. On the whole, in the late '50s the U.S. would sooner have driven a 1957 Chevy than ridden in the chariot of the Lord. What happened since then...