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Starr is not a historian in the contemporary social scientist mold. The direct and discernible influences on his style are 19th century romantic American historians like Prescott and Bancroft. They developed a style of history which demands literary excellence and imagination and Starr has both. It is a style which is narrative rather than analytical; the author's analysis is implied in and intuited from his selection and presentation of materials. It reads like an epic poem, like a saga of heroes, and it means to evoke a feeling of continuity: movement forward along not always logical but inevitable lines...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard Concert Band. Works of Stravinsky, Copland, and Husa. Tickets: $1.25-$2.25 ($.50-$1.50 today at 9 Prescott...
Udall attacked the system as giving "national power to people who are responsible to a limited constituency; Wilbur Mills, one of the most able men in Congress, is not chairman for Little Rock, but for Los Angeles and Long Beach and Prescott, Ariz." Udall has proposed a plan for the majority-party caucus to elect committee chairmen from among the three senior members on each committee, and by secret ballot. In sum, it may well be necessary to drop or at least modify the seniority system in order to encourage more legislators to develop expertise, with the expectation of gaining...
...Life, displayed his concern with ethical difficulties without giving indication of the novelist's ability to whip observations and emotions into an intellectually compelling, deeply felt, unified narrative, Critics who did praise Daniel applauded. Doctorow`s new found control and intensity, Still, even thought Stanley Kauffmann and Peter Prescott called it in the novel of the tear, the New Yorker didn't consider it at all, and any treatment it received in supposedly serious literary journals was cursory...
After a forfeit win over Weld, Wigglesworth West has had two one-sided victories. They beat Thayer, 45-33, and Strauss ABC, by a 56-43 score. Their other wins have come via a forfeit from Weld, and a 46-40 decision over Hurlbut-Prescott...