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In pockets of survival there may be some historians who still retain the old notion imposed by scientific history that, as another president of the American Historical Association, Walter Prescott Webb, put it, “There is something historically naughty about good writing,” that “a great gulf exists between truth and beauty and the scholar who attempts to bridge it deserves to fall in and drown,” and that “the real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.” If some still believe this, communication is not for them.
Practicing History
Barbara W. Tuchman
“I guess legends aren’t always true.” “No,” said Bram. “It’s always dangerous to meet one’s heroes. We want them to be perfect, but of course they’re riddled with flaws—larger flaws, for they’re cast from larger molds.
The Red Winter
Henry H. Neff
Man löste das Problem dann, indem man das Neopren mit Plexiglas schütze. Trotzdem wurden in den 80ern wieder Uboote beschädigt, diesmal erwischten die Haie Kabelverkleidungen. Man hatte den Zwerg noch einmal unterschätzt und musste auch diese ummanteln. (7/n)
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