Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princeton changed the tempo of the game in the second stanza. "They play a rough brand of hockey," Crimson coach Bill Cleary said of the Tigers, "and we made the mistake of playing along with them...
...sense of display is abolished. The objects are inorganic and dateless: milky long-necked bottles and squat flasks, a biscuit tin, a fluted bowl, some long-beaked metal pitchers. They carry no marks, patterns or brand names. They look fragile and contingent, but they endure for decades, through picture after picture. (To make sure that nothing disturbed the precise relationships he put them in, Morandi drew chalk circles around the bases of his "models" on the surface of the table.) Sometimes the things have the look of architecture; the slender bottle necks, leaning together, vaguely recall the towers of Bologna...
...alternative to this brand of historiography, Tuchman offers narration--and what she calls "history by the ounce." A historian should focus on a particular event and collect all of the evidence relating to it. "We can never be certain that we have recaptured it as it really was. But the least we can do is stay within the evidence." Often in this process of arranging the facts in narrative form, a theory or historical generalization will emerge of its own accord. It may be a modest one, she admits, "but my size...
...prove a thesis: a random collection of essays on a random collection of topics, it rambles over almost 50 years. Yet Tuchman is a purist of sorts, and the freshness of her vision shines through. The book is a product of this vision. It speaks eloquently for a brand of history many historians seem to have forgotten...
...joke beyond its original gag, nearly all the leading actors falter. In an early courting scene LaVergne and Jamerson stand together uncomfortably, tossing ambiguous comments back and forth, devoid of mood or any apparent emotional contact. Later the ecstatic Lutiebelle launches into "I Got Love," a song affirming her brand-new confidence, without having evinced even the subtlest change in bearing...