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...Montreal Canadiens, Gordie Howe finally got that elusive No. 545. The right way too. Detroit was short a man on a penalty when Gordie, who was supposed to be killing time, picked up a loose puck deep in Red Wing territory. He flipped it to Right Wing Billy McNeill and flashed down the ice so fast that the Montreal defensemen were caught flatfooted. McNeill drew Montreal's Charlie Hodge out of the goal. Then he passed to Howe-and Gordie rammed it into the net so hard that he slid off balance past the goal with his stick raised...
...subject, and related in some way to the White House or the presidency, or at least to some sector of the Federal Government. But the selection committee has made exceptions to include a few foreign paintings of U.S. subjects and U.S. paintings of foreign subjects. The James McNeill Whistler oil of London's waterfront was chosen because it is a great Whistler. Scottish Painter John Syme's oil of John James Audubon was purchased because it is a fine portrait. An early acquisition was a pencil-and-sepia drawing, The Apotheosis of Franklin, by the French painter Jean...
These, in brutal brevity, are the organizing ideas of a remarkable new synthesis of world history from 6000 B.C. to the present day. And the stress is on "world," for Author McNeill, chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago, comes amazingly close to getting it all in. He makes the politics of China or the religious maelstroms of India as clear and relevant as the French Revolution or any more standard topic; and he bites down hard on the grit of factual detail with repeated appeals to archaeology, economics, demography, linguistics, engineering, art history...
Cultural Interaction. McNeill's title would appear to give the lie direct to Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West. His book indeed emerges, though he nowhere claims such a purpose, as an arresting alternative to the speculations and systems of Arnold Toynbee, too. Here are no gloomy metaphysics about the soul of a culture or its organic life cycle, no simplistic tabulations of 21 separate civilizations mechanically rising and then running down in helpless isolation from one another...
...McNeill's view, "Western civilization" has become the leadership of world civilization. The emergent Asian and African peoples do not challenge Western civilization as such, even as they throw off the yoke of European rule. In fact, these peoples are developing in almost exact ratio to their adoption of Western techniques, attitudes and ideas. Thus they are not threats but enhancements of Western civilization. In plain, unflappable prose, McNeill gives a wide-screen vision of the world-wide cultural interactions that have moved and continue to move mankind...