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Quite a few History and Literature majors were nonplussed last year by the selection of Stephen. Thernstrom as the speaker at the annual History and Lit dinner. His brand of history was not theirs. Yet the distinction they saw was not one of historical philosophy or bias or method of analysis, but merely that Thernstrom employed certain facts from history that, being numbers, required some basic mathematical treatment before being placed in a larger frame of analysis. The real differences among historians--those we should tune our minds to discover--do not concern whether data is mathematical...
Time on the Cross is an ambitious enough work to contain a good deal of bad history. Its lapses would be easier to excuse if Fogel and Engerman were not so insistent on the revolutionary nature of their method. Often they exaggerate the myopia of earlier historians, in order to make their own conclusions seem more extraordinary. Their work is not, even in conception, the comprehensive evaluation the authors believe it to be. It is a work with new insights and with new speculation; more of the truth could be discovered if people spent more time thinking about the history...
Allende said by declaring that the U.S. policy of intervention was in the best interests of the Chilean people and the United States, President Ford "proclaimed the right of the U.S. to intervene by any method in the affairs of this hemisphere...
Kissinger, in spite of his recent failure, would still like to continue pursuing the gradual method, since it keeps all the keys in his pocket. The resumption of the Geneva talks, which appear to be the next step, make the Soviet Union a central factor in any settlement. So, as Sadat threatens Kissinger with a new alliance with the Soviets, via the opening of the canal, Kissinger attempts to shift the blame for the failure of the Sinai talks on the Israelis, even though the sacrifices asked of them were beyond reason...
...IMMEDIATE FUTURE. The fact that the negotiations were suspended does not mean that this method to move toward peace is finished. If it is found that there is no hope for resuming the talks, other avenues should be tried. We could go to Geneva. I don't see much hope there because everything will be much more complicated. Talks will not be related only to relations between Israel and one other country. They will be related to relations between Israel and all Arab countries. But it is possible during the course of the Geneva conference, another possibility...