Word: macaulay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the best accounts ever written is Steven Runciman's History of the Crusades, now brought to authoritative completion with the third volume, The Kingdom of Acre. Historian Runciman writes in the magistral tradition of Gibbon, Macaulay and his mentor, G. M. Trevelyan. The first two volumes (TIME, Dec. i, 1952) told how the half-civilized Prankish warriors, massacring Saracens on the walls of Jerusalem and Tyre, won dazzling triumphs and founded a kingdom in the Holy Land. The concluding volume relates the somber story of how the warrior pilgrims, having lost the Holy City while squabbling over lands...
...under T.R. He went to Africa for a ten-month hunting holiday, on trail of "the noblest game in all the world." Before he got back to civilization at Khartoum, however, he had found time, in the midst of hunting, to reread his favorite author, Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, to acquire a late-in-life appreciation of Shakespeare, and to pass a disapproving critical judgment on Harvard President Eliot's new five-foot shelf of classics ("As the list, it strikes me as slightly absurd...
...Macaulay noted) In many a bold attack It's those behind cry "Forward!" And those before cry "Back...
Many of the best brains of the last two centuries have felt indebted to the knowledge-lined old institution in London where the British have assembled what is probably the world's most comprehensive collection of information. There Gibbon and Macaulay did their historical research, Boswell perfected the technique of biography, Carlyle studied the intricacies of the French Revolution (and complained of "my museum headache"). Young Charles Dickens came to study, Darwin to solidify his ideas for On the Origin of Species. Karl Marx gathered the wool which went into Das Kapital, most of which he wrote...
...Willow & Oak. Historian Thomas Macaulay penned a hard judgment on the founder of the Cecil family: "Of the willow and not of the oak." Bobbety is of the willow, pliable when he needs be to fill the job of Tory leader of the House of Lords, but he is also of the oak when principle is involved. Principle No. 1 is that Britain is not to be pushed around (his speech on the "scuttle" of Abadan was the most violent of all); principle No. 2 is that Britain's international conduct should be moral. Salisbury, the aristocrat, is aloofly...