Word: reade
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None of us having ever heard of--much less read--Geertz, the discussion came to a fairly abrupt conclusion, all of us noting with interest that Geertz's influence showed not only in the work of Foner, a new-left historian, but also in the concept of ideology argued by the more conservative Bernard Bailyn. To the 12 of us, Geertz was a footnote--even though he is something more than an incidental theorist to the historians we are supposed to read...
...difficult for me to argue that social theory might be of use to history concentrators--not having read much of it as a history concentrator. But when one finds terms such as hegemony popping up in virtually every text on 19th century America, and citations of social theorists lurking in nearly every history book, it seems clear that historians read social theory, and therefore, that historians to be should at least be introduced...
...Reagan Administration, which last month decried the Guatemala plan as fatally flawed, responded coolly to the news. Asked to comment on the Nobel Committee's choice, President Reagan said simply, "I congratulate him." Hours later the White House released a statement that could be read as a warning of the Administration's intention to push forward with its campaign to keep the contras armed and in the field. "This award," it said, "should inspire all of us to renew our efforts to ensure that enduring peace and democracy eventually come to the region." The Administration has consistently maintained that only...
...Sidetrack Tap and fell into another kind of discussion. Wally, the proprietor, was arguing that your books are good for the old home town: "Put us on the map, after all these years," he said. "That's all well and good," Daryl Tollerud replied, "but when they read the map, what are people gonna think?" Daryl had to admit that story you told on him -- about the time he let the skunk into his parents' bedroom -- was pretty funny, but he didn't like you "writing up" what he was doing there, 42 years old and going through papers...
Humble as these moments are, they are our epiphanies. They deliver us belatedly from the cruel satirical embrace of Sinclair Lewis, the last Minnesota author anyone paid attention to, and, perhaps, restore to us our humanity. Hard to fly over us uncomprehendingly after you have read Garrison Keillor. Epiphanies? Did I really use that word? I'm glad I didn't speak up at the Sidetrack. I might've tried to use it conversationally. "Cheess, Rollie, you been down there in the Cities too long," somebody would certainly have said...