Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Committee on U.S. China Relations held a three-day seminar last week for leading American journalists. At the banquet Thursday night, John K. Fairbank delivered the following exterporaneous speech. Fairbank is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and Director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center...
...spiritually motivated crusaders striking at the values of straight society where it is most vulnerable: its lack of soul. In a sense, hippiedom is a transplanted Lost Horizon, a Shangri-La a go-go blending Asian resignation and American optimism in a world where no one grows...
...involvement. The aggregate of these individual steps -- more weapons, more advisers, a combat role for our men, progressive increases in our troop strength, bombing of North Vietnam, a widening choice of targets -- is larger by far than the sum of the individual parts. The resulting involvement of the Asian mainland is not a development that all who asked or acquiesced in the individual actions wished to see or even foresaw...
...Ford Foundation has announced a grant for Far Eastern studies at Harvard which will provide the East Asian Research Center with more money than it received from all sources in its first ten years...
...This is particularly evident in the glittering panels of Dimitri Plavinsky, 30, a painter who has traveled extensively in Central Asia, where, he writes, "I came to know the magic voice of silence communicated by the crumbling walls of mosques, mazes of deserted cities and the intricate patterns of Asian mosaics...