Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...escape from one's own background. While the student sloughs off childhood attributes, he is tempted to discard many of the values developed at home in favor of the new ones he imagines to have found here. But Harvard, while it spurns the richness of a full American tradition, does not provide a satisfactory Continental substitute. To the undergraduate, Europe is a spectrum ranging from Germany's "Hegelian mysticism" to England's ubiquitous middle class muddling through Asia and Africa are still thought of as lower civilizations, admired only for primitive art and Japanese prints. This is the average extent...
...desire for truth subserves his dread of being thought foolish. In his efforts to elude being caught in a ridiculous posture, he avoids positive commitment if possible. Religous zeal and patriotism are examples of attitudes missing or rare at Harvard, the epithet "pious" provokes dension, and the term "all-American" would only be used in a perjorative sense...
Alexander A. Guber, professor of History at Moscow University, and editor of the journal "New and Newest History," said in the latest issue of his periodical that "acquaintance with the first American university" he visited showed him to "what an outstanding scale" the study of Soviet history, economics, and culture was carried on in the U.S.A...
About Professor Langer, Guber said "the Russian Center at Harvard is headed by the present president of the American Historical Association, professor W. Langer, famous for his works on international relations, his publications of the documents on foreign policies of the U.S.A.--in particular on the eve of the Second World...
...numbers hundreds of thousands of volumes." He seemed impressed by the fact that Widener contained "full sets of all Russian pre-revolutionary journals, complete collections of works of Russian historians, complete works of Russian writers" as well as "literature and periodicals after the revolutionary period." He also noted that American libraries also received emigre periodicals, usually anti-soviet...