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After breakfast I went to sit in our Fishbowl for a while, trying to delay studying for my exam the next day. The past Saturday night, a group of Currierites had, for some reason, moved a few things into the Fishbowl Like the Gilbert Lower Main furniture. And the Tuchman Living Room television. And every video game...
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Whether pessimists or optimists, we are once again awed by the fin-de-siecle frisson. As Barbara Tuchman put it, people feel "as if the hand of God were turning a page in human fate." We have a sense of things ending and others beginning...
...echo from 30 years ago: John Kennedy held up Barbara Tuchman's book The Guns of August, told visitors that its story of the start of World War I and the modern age of slaughter was a tale of failed communication. Still, he never called...
...civilians, 1,200 Indian soldiers and 800 Tiger fighters dead. "It was none of our business to send in our army, and when we did, we were so ignorant of the realities on the ground," lamented an Indian major general last week. Pointing to a copy of historian Barbara Tuchman's book on misguided military adventures, The March of Folly -- from Troy to Vietnam, he said, "We can add Sri Lanka to that...