Word: asian-americans
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...Lecturer in East Asian-American Relations at Harvard. Let me make clear right from the start that I don't need the job. Before I came here I was an important man on the National Security Council in the United States Government, I turned down the job of editor-in-chief of Harper's hoping I would get tenure at Harvard. Now it seems I won't be able to stay. Is there anything I can do? CHARISMATIC...
...probably too late. "East Asian-American Relations" is much too fuzzy, Make up your mind: Do you want American or do you want East Asian? If you want to stay at Harvard-- and neither government nor Harper's (why not the Atlantic, for heaven's sake?) is the place for a young gentleman--you should look for another job. Have you ever thought of being a House Master? Or, better--I'm told all these newspapermen come to Harvard each year as Nieman Fellows. Surely they need someone to take care of them...
Thomson will continue to teach courses as a Lecturer in History. His tenure appointment, like many others in the History Department, collapsed because it was spread too thin over different areas. Thomson specializes in East Asian-American relations. This field is just gaining scholarly recognition, but to the academically conservative Harvard History Department, it is still unestablished. The East Asian wing of the Department supported Thomson's candidacy, but the Americanists opposed it. The Americanists won, and Thomson lost. In a similar episode, Ernest R. May, an American historian, backed the bid of Sam Williamson, a specialist in European diplomatic...