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"+++feature-default\n\n+++group-2\n\n[![April 2, 1979 P. 33](https://static.cdn.realviewdigital.com/global/content/GetImage.aspx?pguid=FC9071DC-DD99-441F-A727-1B74670350BC&i=1979-04-02&folio=032)](http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1979-04-02#folio=032)\n\n[![April 2, 1979 P. 33](https://static.cdn.realviewdigital.com/global/content/GetImage.aspx?pguid=FC9071DC-DD99-441F-A727-1B74670350BC&i=1979-04-02&folio=033)](http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1979-04-02#folio=033)\n\n+++\n\n+++\n{: legacyType=\"feature-small\"}\n\n*The New Yorker*, April 2, 1979 P. 33\n\nParody of \"A Distant Mirror\" (The Forward To a Study That Will Do to 1978 What Barbara Tuchman Has Done To The Fourteenth Century.) This study was undertaken in the hope that a chronicle of 1978 might illuminate our own time. At first glance, that year would seem to have much in common with this one, 1979. I decided to focus on one person's life as a kind of exemplum. I measured every likely candidate against exigent standards: Did he have a normal hairline? Did he play at least one racquet sport? Could he do the Disco Duck? The selection was narrowed to one Thomas Hugo Kramer III, of Great Neck, Long Island ....\n\n[View Article](http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1979-04-02#folio=032)\n\n"
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