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...PEOPLE who have read the opening passage of Barbara Tuchman's epic The Guns of August will soon forget the grandeur of Edward VII's funeral procession. The vision of nine European monarchs--braided, plumed, with "crimson sashes, and jeweled orders flashing in the sun," riding abreast through the palace gates--is so splendid that the reader, like the crowd, waits in hushed and admiring awe. This is history at its best, some say--a vision so powerful and majestic it transports the reader to the streets of London on that crisp May morning, 1910. Through her detailed and evocative...
...Tuchman leaves no doubt as to where she stands. In both her major historical works and 45 years worth of collected essays, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner displays a sharp scepticism of easy solutions. "Prefabricated systems make me suspicious, and science applied to history makes me wince," Tuchman writes in her opening piece...
...this summer is undoubtedly "The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This is the most intelligent survey of the subject yet done by any museum. It is not definitive, since its curators-Stephanie Barron and Maurice Tuchman of LACMA -decided to use material only from Western collections. But it is admirably precise in historical judgment and informed as to selection; and, strange to say, it is the first show of its kind in America. After closing at LACMA, it will be seen at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington in late...
...weeks ago when Cronkite refused to commit himself, the committee approached Barbara Tuchman, historian and author, Johnny Carson and Burt Reynolds, members of the committee said. All three declined...
...precisely defined the ingredients necessary for a society to generate innovation. Historian Barbara Tuchman notes that the 12th and 13th centuries enjoyed "one of civilization's great bursts of development," with the introduction of the compass, the spinning wheel and the windmill. Mid-19th century Europe and the U.S. enjoyed similar explosions. But why? Perhaps necessity is indeed the mother of invention, and the demands of the current energy and environmental crises may yet revive the spirit of the Yankee tinkerer...