Word: yorktown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amherst were treated to a re-enactment of the battle of Yorktown, as the Minutemen fired out to a 28-7 lead after the opening five minutes, and had the Crimson unconditionally surrendered by halftime...
Scheer and Rankin's historic bridgework is as skilled as their choice of quotations. Recollected events and human voices carry the reader from the first shots (and words) at Lexington in 1775 to a chorus-like finale at Yorktown. Flashes of humor and high spirits lighten the hardships along the way. Washington (on inflation): "A rat in the shape of a horse is not to be found at this time for less than ?200." A very young officer to his wife, after the battle of Princeton: "Oh, my Susan! It was a glorious day and I would not have...
Died. Elisabeth Rethberg, 81, top Metropolitan Opera soprano for two decades; in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Blonde, blue-eyed and almost fearsomely robust, German-born Rethberg tried out at the Met in 1922 and stayed for 20 years, drawing raves with a clear, effortlessly powerful voice that made her a standout in an era of great Met sopranos, including Kirsten Flagstad and Lotte Lehmann. She also brought a lively offstage presence to U.S. opera-once, during a tour with Met Basso Ezio Pinza, she collected not only bouquets but also a $250,000 suit from Pinza's wife charging alienation...
...special edition be given to the country's second highest ranking reader, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. As it turned out, the Vice President had just finished serving as a bicentenary tour guide, having escorted French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing through the Revolutionary War battle site at Yorktown. Mr. Rockefeller did not say whether President Giscard seemed unusually well informed about that era, but Paris Correspondent Gregory Wierzynski reports that Giscard packed a copy of The New Nation in his briefcase before departing for the U.S. He said he would use it as a "document de base...
...Book of Abigail and John offers an unusual historical perspective: both Adams are canny observers of the society around them. They comment to each other on the events and characters of Revolutionary America. Whether it is Abigail discussing the post-Yorktown morale in Massachusetts, or John recounting the lackadaisical diplomatic adminstration of Franklin in Paris, little misses their critical eyes. Adams is anxious to share his thoughts on politics with his wife. In a passage of overblown prose (often quoted with relish by Harvard colonial historian Bernard Bailyn), Adams salutes the Declaration of Independence...