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...exhibit contains more objects--and more diverse ones--than I could possibly mention. There are wedgewood pieces, ceramics, and clocks -- among the objects that most people enjoy least in museums. But it is wonderful to think about all of these things really belonging to one strange lonely man, drawings, clocks, bronzes and all. This show certainly makes one think of Winthrop, and look at the collection with a feeling for him, in his house, looking at them. I can just see him in front of one of his lovely clocks, trying to decide whether to set the alarm...
Calvert Magruder '16, a former Harvard professor and the Federal Judge responsible for the death of the Massachusetts Sunday blue law, died Thursday at the Wedgewood Nursing home in Newton...
...COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES by C. V. Wedgewood. 307 pages. Macm...
...routed the Royalist armies in England's civil war and ruled the nation for a decade until his death in 1658, "providence and necessity" seemed synonymous. In this finely etched account of the winter of 1648-49, the height of Cromwell's career, British Historian C. V. Wedgewood shows how relentlessly he invoked both, to strip away the "divinity that doth hedge a king...
...soon as he was rid of the King, Cromwell set up an even more harshly authoritarian regime, which was duly overthrown in the royal Restoration of 1660 when Charles II ascended the throne. Miss Wedgewood, who has lucidly portrayed the era in two previous books, The King's War and The King's Peace, avoids taking sides in this final volume on Charles. But, as she suggests, many another despot in succeeding wars and revolutions was to cite Cromwell's "blow for liberty" as a precedent for murder. Few have dared to claim God's sanction...