Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Handlin includes a string of essays for the new historian on how to deal with evidence more carefully: how to read a word, count a number and so on. He cites an under current of feeling in historical writing call "faction," a bungling combination of fact and fiction. For the '70s, faction appears to be in vogue...
Israel's destruction is in the interests of a large number of groups. To achieve it, any special claims Israel can make on the conscience of the world have to be obliterated. So Israel and the Jews are smeared with racism--the impulse that lay at the roots of the Holocaust--even though those doing the smearing are well aware that the charge of racism is completely unfounded...
...misty land of speculation--on the future, on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, on the possibility of intergalactic communication. For example, he draws a hyperbolic and fatuous parallel between the Big Bang theory of the birth of the universe, and the human birth experience. He proposes a seemingly infinite number of theories in these chapters and substantiates each less well than its predecessor, abandoning totally the close scrutiny he has just advocated so strongly...
Shaplen emphasizes the United States' failures in any number of Asian revolutions, offering candid assessments of people and policies that contributed to our mistakes. His chapters on the Indochinese nations, particularly Vietnam and Cambodia, are especially effective. He reminisces colorfully on Saigon under siege and the atrocities of Pol Pot's regime but does not limit himself to narrative. In the section entitled, "Why the Americans Failed," he writes...
...Playing number two, the Harvard duet of Patty Vitale and Deirdre Wilde whistled by their opponents, 6-2, 6-2. Sara Nicholas and Janet Teltscher, playing their first match together, made a sterling debut, cutting down their opposition...