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...Look up the Holocaust: “the term used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II.”So it is that, on a website that serves as a central information source for our era, one of history??s greatest villains is reduced to a spectral figure of fear while one of its greatest tragedies becomes a dispassionate statement of fact. The encyclopedia drains the entries of their terror and, indeed, of their very life, reducing them to little more than a hazy nightmare in our morning-after memory...
...last couple of stories, in which complex pseudo-physics are described in intricate detail. But it is “History of A Disturbance,” embedded halfway into the collection, that summarizes the predicament Millhauser’s whole project must confront. “History?? is narrated by a man who gradually “casts off words” due to the dawning realization that they “blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception...
...Well, this team has made history??more than once...
...Crimson followed that win (one I called “the greatest win in Harvard men’s basketball history?? in this column) with seven straight losses...
...appointment of Michael J. Klarman, who is currently a law professor at the University of Virginia, brings the total number of full-time faculty to 94—the largest in the Law School’s history??and falls in line with a recent pattern of appointments of professors who are experts in the fields of public interest...