Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vital moment in European history. First, we should thank him because in spite of obstacles, dangers and pressures he knew the right thing to do at the time it had to be done. In this way, an extraordinary man, a remarkable politician of great maturity retired into a past chapter of French history, and a new page is opening...
...Korean War added another chapter to the book. There it was discovered that psychiatric first aid, administered on the spot to battle-shocked soldiers, often quickly restored them to duty. On the other hand, those sent home for protracted institutional treatment responded far more slowly to intensive care. It was almost as if institutionalization itself helped confirm the patient's suspicion that something was terribly wrong...
...pieces like "Theatre and Film," she constantly works to break down old critical boundaries like the one between "fine arts" and "popular arts." She has not only declared that culture is a single kingdom-Bach to the Beatles, Henry James to Bergman-but perceived and firmly insisted (in the chapter "What's Happening in America-1966") that politics cannot be discussed outside the cultural context in which they occur. This last is essentially a European concept, and her interest in European culture has lent substance to her views in other ways. She has helped sponsor on this side...
Hansen might profitably have tried to examine the network of small-town malice, envy and ambition at work in the trials, which the modern rational and liberal mind likes to blame for the whole Salem tragedy-most dramatically exhibited in Arthur Miller's grinding parable, The Crucible. A chapter sketching the life and death of Puritanism would have been useful; as Hansen has indicated, much of what is popularly supposed about the Puritans is incorrect. But Hansen has done two things admirably well: he has suggested how nearly impossible it is to see another era clearly through the accretion...
Among the projects of local CCAS chapters, the Harvard CCAS chapter sent four representatives to the Chinese embassy in Paris to present a position paper "criticizing U.S. China policy and the scholarship which supports it"; Berkeley CCAS is preparing an Asian Studies curriculum for an autonomous Third World College; and the Yale chapter held a conference on teaching Asian Studies in high schools...