Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, John Paul's presence and words reminded Americans?and the world?that humanity does have a higher nature. Said Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, leading ecclesiastical historian at Catholic University: "The greatest contribution that the Pope's visit can make to our nation is focusing upon and emphasizing the need for a revival of morality. John Paul is a man of singular sophistication; he is no pious goose. But he is a moral leader?or he isn't anything...
...Project historian Valery F. Rosebroch said yesterday her research indicates that the building was constructed for James Olmstead, a wealthy Cantabridgian, but was used as a University dormitory between...
...nothing is unrevivable-as an exhibition of 54 paintings from 17th century Venice which opened two weeks ago at London's National Gallery abundantly shows. Organized by Art Historian Homan Potterton, and composed of paintings from British and Irish collections, it is the first show ever given to this subject in England. It makes a distinct contribution to art scholarship&-and, in an alternately dry and overripe way, provides real visual pleasure as well...
Without a return to some consensus in society at large, no future textbook historian will ever again have Muzzey's authority or his winning "tone of self-assurance, his assumption of his own legitimacy in the American tradition...
...runner dashing for third without having touched second base. Magazine writers, or the authors of books about current affairs, often find themselves gratefully surprised by how much remains unexplored and untold about major events that the daily press and television once swarmed all over, then abandoned. An English historian, when asked how valuable newspapers are to his own work, didn't express the usual misgivings about their accuracy. Newspapers would be more useful to historians, he said, if they devoted more space to the immediate past and less to the immediate future. More useful to readers...