Word: reconstructionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leverett Saltonstall went to Harvard and was ninth in his line to become Governor of Massachusetts. Edward Brooke went to Howard and is descended from slaves. It was symptomatic of the liberalization of Massachusetts' social and political mores that when Saltonstall decided last week to retire from the U.S...
Reconstruction of the building's exterior will begin in March, and "we are aiming for completion of the job by September," said Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law and president of the Managing Board of the Faculty Club.
Among more general historians, Daniel Boorstin's second volume of a projected trilogy, The A mericans: the National Experience, defined the driving American character as it developed between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Samuel Eliot Morison's 1,150-page The Oxford History of .'he American People...
Greasy Verisimilitude. But not even in their wildest dreams did the oldtimers go in for a production like Edward Kienholz's The Beanery (opposite), currently assembled at Manhattan's Dwan Gallery. A veritable apotheosis of the ordinary, it is West Coast Artist Kienholz's reconstruction of a...
Johnson brilliantly handled his role in the reconstruction under Chief of Staff Earle ("Bus") Wheeler, who was named Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1964. That July, reaching down past 43 three-and four-star generals with greater seniority, Defense Secretary McNamara chose Johnson as Army Chief of Staff. Johnson...