From mcmahon@maple.lemoyne.edu Sun Jan 28 12:43:56 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id MAA111626 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:43:55 -0800 Received: from MAPLE.lemoyne.edu (maple.lemoyne.edu [192.231.122.100]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA21196 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:43:54 -0800 Received: from maple.lemoyne.edu by maple.lemoyne.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #33655) id <01JZG2E5JL4W005L7Y@maple.lemoyne.edu> for CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:43:59 EDT Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 15:43:59 -0400 (EDT) From: John McMahon Subject: RE: Years - and It's Saturday Night Live in New York ! To: CLASSICS@U.WASHINGTON.EDU Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, McMahon, John M wrote: > > DL is still too ambitious. In case no one else has yet mentioned it by the > time this post arrives, I shall name: > > John Reed, *Ten Days that Shook the World* (1919) Which formed the actual textual basis for Eisentein's *October*, subtitled *Ten Days That Shook the World* (1927). > > I am also surprised - nay shocked - that no-one has yet mentioned, among > books with years in their titles, that notable classic of historical > scholarship, > > W C Sellar & R J Yeatman, *1066 and All That* (1930) Alas. My own copy (purchased in 1965) sits to the right of the keyboard, even as I type. Had not another bout of lake-effect snow called me to shovel (yet again) earlier today, I fully intended nominate it. Now, with driveway, paths, astro-observing area, deck, and most of the roof cleared of snow (until tomorrow, at least), I find TL has beat me to the punch. > That omission was certainly not a Good Thing. Nor memorable ... especially since one of the two dates in the book is *classical*: 55 BC. John McMahon Le Moyne College .