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...OXFORD HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE by Samuel Eliot Morison. 1,150 pages. Oxford...
...compiling this 500,000-word chronicle, Historian Morison had the amiable notion of lacing the chapters with the appropriate music of each period. He starts off with an old Navajo war chant and the Salve Regina sung by the Spanish sailors bound for the New World. He ends, so many chants and prayers, hymns and ditties, marches and dirges later, with Camelot...
...charm, this Broadway show tune makes an oddly off-key conclusion to a sequence that began on uncharted seas and in that vast, primeval, nearly empty continent. This sums up both the virtues and the faults of Morison's volume. It does present the incomparable sweep of the American story in the words of a justly respected historian. But it is also often disappointing and, as the account approaches the present, it becomes superficial and at times trivial...
Another ecumenical precedent may be set Sunday in nearby Lexington, when Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Emeritus, speaks at a memorial mass for President Kennedy...
...Morison's appearance will mark the first time that a non-Catholic has ever spoken at a mass, according to the pastor of St. Brigid's Church. The pastor, the Rt. Rev. George W. Casey, is a columnist for the Pilot and the Boston Sunday Herald...