Word: arabist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French or the Jordanians in Palestine. Yet, despite all the anti-Israeli passion, few other Arabs are really eager to risk their lives for the Arabs in Palestine. The "Arab nation," which is so often talked about by the leaders, is nothing but "an act of will," says British Arabist Sir Hamilton Gibb. It does not correspond to any visible political entity. Pan Arabism is at once a Mitty-esque dream of things past and a poetic assertion of a unity that does not exist...
Others include Mathematician Marshall Stone, son of the late Chief Justice, and Arabist Marshall Hodgson, author of The Assassins. James Redfield, son of the founder, is a classicist with a bent for cultural anthropology. Mircea Eliade is a professor of the history of religions, a Jungian psychologist, a novelist in Rumanian, and the envy of his students for being able to "drink whisky all night and never drop a line of conversation...
...heavy dropout rate: 50%. But survivors have done well. Bradley Patterson Jr., the first committee student, is now executive director of the Peace Corps. Most others teach, in fields from science history to political philosophy, at schools from M.I.T. to Cornell. On the committee itself are two alumni, Arabist Hodgson and Classicist Redfield...
Looking to her own, Harvard chose for distinction within her Faculty Sir Hamilton Gibb, the Arabist and University Professor who heads the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Letters); the retired historian of America Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. (Letters); Harvey Brooks, physicist and Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics (Science); and Augustus Thorndike '19, surgeon at the Medical School (honorary...