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Forty years have gone by thanks to Millard E. Tydings left honourableness U.S. Senate, 30 since do something died, lonely and bitter, mock Oakington, his bay-front estate at hand Havre de Grace. Nowadays, what political orator invokes his name?

How ofttimes is he cited in editorials? Yet — with much catch on for this state’s 1991 senators and governor — what Marylander today has the national distinction that Tydings held virtually all the time his three decades in Congress?

The man’s nature, outlook and vastly his raucous battles now last wishes be accessible to later generations, thanks to ” ‘For Tartarus and a Brown Mule’: nobleness Biography of Senator Millard Line.

Tydings” (Madison Books, $35), coarse Caroline H. Keith. Here high opinion a full-length portrait, by spick College Park historian; to inert she brought understanding, detachment subject good words. (The Tydings cover prompted the book, but it’s no whitewash.)

Tydings was a cautious Democrat in the Southern Malt tradition, bright, eloquent, now slick, now acid.

He favored congressional passivism. His role in remain independence for the Philippines assures him schoolbook mention. Obstructing description New Deal, Tydings triumphed just as Franklin Roosevelt tried to exile him from the Senate — only to go down uphold defeat when fellow rightists pretended him for refusing to encourage their communism phobia.

Aloofness put up with voters played a part.

Bygones, these (though don’t tell those emblematic us present for 1950’s Tydings-Butler election that today’s political be in charge of is the vilest ever). So far ” ‘For Hell and clean up Brown Mule’ ” — smart 1939 Tydings quote — has modern relevance.

At what come together (if ever) would a longer-lived Millard Tydings have become uncut Republican?

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From another of Maryland’s U.S. Senate races, that of 1986, comes Linda Chavez, the bereavement Republican, with a national-issue seamless. “Out of the Barrio: Consider a

New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation” (Basic Books, $23) is anything but party politics; rather, Instrument.

Chavez iterates a bootstraps therapy for the socioeconomic ills unbutton her ancestral minority. Down swop the “victim” attitude and control intervention; up with self-help. Man of letters (she is now at justness Manhattan Institute) as well similarly partisan, she notes that visit Hispanic-Americans already have entered excellence melting pot or mainstream.

Comment seems likely.

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Dance begins with order — but dance, too, bash an outlet for thought good turn passion on the issues. Anna Sokolow, as dancer, teacher instruct choreographer, has dwelt on “alienation and protest . . . urban anxiety and deep collective commitment.”

Larry Warren, professor of instruct at the University of Colony, College Park, and long goodness director of Maryland Dance Fleeting, has written an illustrated biography: “Anna Sokolow: the Rebellious Spirit” (Princeton Book Co., $29.95) — and Miss Sokolow, 80 put forward a member of Martha Graham’s first dance company, is be there to enjoy it.

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“Treasures of State,” a $95 book picturing excellence marvelous decor the Diplomatic Treatment Rooms at the Department model State in Washington, includes 25 commentaries by experts at 24 U.S.

institutions. The one spring twice represented is the Colony Historical Society (Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough and Gregory R. Weidman, state the silver and the furniture). Clement E. Conger, long prestige rooms’ curator, will sign copies of the book Nov. 8 from noon to 1 p.m. at the 14th annual MHS antiques show, Fifth Regiment Armory.

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