Word: civilizes
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Though dictator-ruled Portugal is a member of NATO, dictator-ruled Spain is not. One reason is the long-standing hostility between France and Franco's Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, France took in 500,000 Republican refugees and even let them set up a government in exile. French Socialists in particular, recalling with distaste Franco's wartime friendship with Hitler and Mussolini, have always resisted friendly relations with Franco...
...course will cover the full scope of Civil War literature, including fiction, poetry, military memoirs, diaries, and letters. In presenting his material, Wilson said yesterday, "I expect to read and then talk to the class directly...
Edmund Wilson--critic, historian and novelist--will teach two courses here next year. The first, a full year undergraduate course limited to 100 students, will deal with the literature of the Civil War; the other, a one-term graduate seminar, will investigate the use of language in literature...
Recently appointed the second Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of English, Wilson will base his undergraduate course on his nearly completed book, which surveys writings of the Civil War period. He will deal with the works of authors from Harriet Beecher Stowe to the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes...
During the Fall term, Wilson will devote two hours a week to his graduate seminars and two to undergraduate lectures. But in the Spring, the undergraduate Civil War course will have two lectures and two seminars each week...