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Ranke, with his avowed intention to show history wie es eigentlich gewesen --how it really was--and with his ambition to put the study of history on a scientific footing, doubtless had a more pervasive influence on the formal output of generations of historians.
He was--and, weirdly enough, still is--writing principally as a Nixon apologist aiming to trivialize Watergate itself.
All this time I knew what the Ninth Ward was--and the song is about New Orleans.
Rafferty passes over obvious chances to criticize the indies in technical terms--no review of Boogie Nights prepared me for what a patchy, tedious film it was--and instead finds something morally defective in them.
Some time ago I was creating a document for a client, using a program which I will not name to protect the guilty, although it was--and still is, by general consent (my own included)--the best of the pack.