Word: assimilationism
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Before leaving Harvard to join the Nixon administration in 1969, Moynihan was director of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. He did not resume that position when he returned to Cambridge three months ago. He has published widely in the field of urban affairs, and was co...
Sir: We question the efficiency of the geologic process of crustal assimilation to remove large volumes of waste material. The trenches may fill faster than the garbage can be ingested. New islands and reefs of curiously familiar material could be the result. Volcanoes could become smokestacks belching atmospheric pollutants on...
Susan Sontag combines many of the principles of Godard and Robbe-Grillet, and circumvents their problems of alienating the audience with new forms by using old forms subversively in order to destroy our acceptance of them. The film is dialectical in the sense that it starts speaking to us where...
New Consciousness. The campaign has had one effect that the Soviets did not expect. It has reawakened ethnic consciousness in young Jews, who were generally believed to have favored assimilation into Soviet society.
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 66, has now lived in the U.S. longer than he did in Poland. At both terminals he has borne witness to the Jewish catastrophes that dwarf the past and pre-empt the future: pogroms, the Holocaust, assimilation and its concomitant, the dying of the Yiddish language in...