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...said and who “offers this country the opportunity for truth and reconciliation.” In a soft and almost timid voice, Morrison read from her most recent novel “A Mercy,” which explores the condition of slavery set in the 1680s and powerfully raises some of the most profound questions about human rights in our own time; thus, it was the appropriate closer for the evening.Quietly chilling evocations and depictions of women were painfully authentic and for all their beauty, threatened to deprive all present of any glimpse of hope...
...emphasis not on a common base of reference but a common set of “approaches” leaves Harvard students seeking to fulfill the Core with the choice between rigorous introductory courses geared towards prospective concentrators and unbelievably abstruse Core classes about topics like Boll Weevils in 1680s Holland. Few survey courses remain that offer a comprehensive view for students not planning to pursue further studies in given subjects. This phenomenon has the bizarre result that, often, only concentrators can put their knowledge in context. Most non-concentrators are marooned on islands of specific knowledge...
Great schools like Yale should not escape condemnation so quickly. Contrary to McWhorter’s claim, slavery was condemned by many intellectual leaders in early America. In the 1680s, shortly after the settlement of Pennsylvania, Quakers there began strenuous efforts to discourage slavery. In the wake of the Revolution, many people—inspired by Enlightenment ideas that taught the fundamental equality of humans—urged the abolition of slavery. Many Americans knew slavery was wrong, but the leading institutions—churches, school and courts—continued to embrace slavery...
After receiving his Ph.D., Mitchell decided to travel to Sweden to study at the University of Lund, which was founded in the 1680s and is "one of the two big old research universities in Sweden...
Russia and China have been wrestling for years along the vast, sparsely settled 4,100-mile common frontier, from Kha barovsk in the east to Kirghiz in the west. The first recorded battle between Russian and Chinese troops took place in the Amur River valley in the 1680s, and since Sino-Soviet relations began to deteriorate in earnest in 1956, repeated incidents have occurred. Major trouble flared in 1960 and again in 1962, when Pravda reported that 5,000 border "in cidents" had occurred within twelve months. The Russians have since used troops to evict Chinese squatters from islands...