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Filmmaker Ken Burns, director of acclaimed documentaries on Huey Long and the Brooklyn Bridge, has collected what seems like every visual scrap from the period: photographs, paintings, newspaper clippings, as well as present-day footage of key battle sites. To them he has wedded excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters and speeches, read by people as diverse as Jason Robards, Jody Powell and George Plimpton. A spare but evocative narration by David McCullough is supplemented by commentary from historian Shelby Foote and others. The result is not just fine history but a pensive epic about the nation's great catastrophe...
...have come to understand clearly our own best interests and present-day world realities. We have learned too much about each other to be able to revert to old preconceptions and ideological cliches. Besides, if the Soviet Union and the U.S. are to keep their relations on the basis of reason, they simply cannot afford confrontation with each other. Each simply has too many immense, crucial problems, and there are global threats looming over the entire human race...
...that their religion may be headed for eventual extinction in the very lands that were Christianity's cradle. Originating on the eastern rim of the Mediterranean nearly 2,000 years ago, the newborn faith spread rapidly to Syria, and thence the apostle Paul took it to his native land, present-day Turkey. Others went southward to Egypt, making Alexandria the first center of Christian culture long before Rome and Constantinople. The rise of Islam beginning in the 7th century ultimately made that faith predominant...
...these efforts will come during the next few decades, as the baby boomers turn geriatric and the rest of society has to bear the enormous burden of caring for them in what is likely to be an era of dwindling resources. At that point, the mutual understanding gained from present-day initiatives may provide a crucial buffer to bitter generational conflicts...
David G. Mitten, Loeb professor of art and archaeology, has been excavating a Lydian and Greco-Roman site called Sardis in present-day Turkey...