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...medieval reenactment group of about 20 members that has been in existence at Harvard for approximately 30 years. Harvard's chapter is part of the international SCA, which has around 40,000 members...
Shorto's sympathies lie with the movement: a chapter on leftish clerics weaving revisionism into their preaching is far more lucid than one titled "The Case Against." Yet he is at heart a synthesizer. "The trick," he notes, involves doing "two things at once: digging into history with one hand while tolling the beads of story with the other." That he does not detail the mechanics of that prestidigitation can't be held against him. Whoever shows the way to achieving it will be one of the next age's heroes...
Leonard C. Alkins, the president of the Boston chapter of the NAACP, says that the policy is "obviously detrimental...
...beloved ranch near Santa Barbara is off-limits and up for sale; his vigorous regimen of old would be too risky today. Phone conversation is increasingly difficult. When he watches television, his comprehension swims in and out of focus. It is, as Nancy has aptly called this final chapter in Reagan's long career, "the long goodbye...
This was a remarkable chapter in American cultural history, and one worth recalling today, as the air grows thicker with politically opportunistic denunciations of the immigrant--as though America was ever anything but an immigrant society. Barron's timing is impeccable, but this is not the kind of show that offers a continuous visual feast or a crescendo of visual achievement. It is heavy (and has to be) with information, pamphlets, books, press clippings, old exhibition catalogs. It comes up with some intensely interesting and little-known figures, such as Varian Fry, the Scarlet Pimpernel of cultural rescue, who after...