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...Away rises above mere nostalgia, but it doesn't avoid romanticizing the past. The Bedford children are a bit too precocious in racial matters (15- year-old Nathaniel is bold enough to visit a black juke joint to listen to the music) and Lily too poetically noble. The town's first racial protest, moreover, is a sit-in that might have been a model for Gandhi. To protest the verdict in a case that Forrest has prosecuted, demonstrators gather slowly on the courthouse steps. They sit motionless, hushed, intense -- almost holy. The way it was? Or the way TV would...
Compare this to historic Harvard, where students in 1638 took Headmaster Nathaniel Eaton to court for a variety of infractions, among them serving meals consisting of little more than moldy bread and beer...
...hanging in the open space are portraits of the Reverend of the First Cambridge Church Nathaniel Appleton (Class of 1712) and the Reverend's wife. Knowles says, with a wry smile, that the minister's wife (in the portrait) scares him back to work with her frown, if he should ever procrastinate...
...most pressing appointment for Gates is a senior historian, a post left vacant with the death of DuBois Professor of History Nathaniel I. Huggins in the fall...
...most pressing appointment for Gates is a senior historian, a post left vacant with the death of DuBois Professor of History Nathaniel I. Huggins in the fall...