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...should be very surprised to find out that Mr. Shapiro had read much by or about this author. Beckett was, of course, born in 1906 in Ireland (Foxrock, County Dublin) and educated at Trinity College before he departed for France. If one wished to take a colonialist point of view one might possibly say that Beckett was born in the then United Kingdom, or even in the so-called British Isles...
...they were some primitive tribe, and ignores their view of their own culture. Mahmud A. Ghul, a visiting Palestinian professor at Harvard, says, "Western scholarship still treats the whole of Islamic civilization as a pale shadow of Western Christian thought. This is the academic version of the missionary or colonialist approach...
...Zayyat: We have nothing against the Israelis as Semites or as Jews. What we have against the rulers of Israel is their aggressive and colonialist policy. Israel has never tried to gain acceptance of its presence in the area, only to impose itself through arms and conquest. The idea that you can speak only from the mouth of a gun has always been Israel's idea, inherited perhaps from the Europe of the 1930s...
When Harvard students demanded that the President speak out on the Vietnam war or Gulf Oil's alliance with colonialist Portugal, Bok refused, arguing that the issues required more careful study. No one, he said, would want Harvard's president to make glib pronouncements. But Bok said in August that he made his June speech without reviewing Faculty reports on ROTC, without knowing whether enough students wanted ROTC back to provide the minimum enrollment for establishing a unit, without consulting Faculty for their recollections of 1969, or reviewing reports of that Spring's events to see if his charges were...
When Harvard students demanded that the President speak out on the Vietnam war or Gulf Oil's alliance with colonialist Portugal, Bok refused, arguing that the issues required more careful study. No one, he said, would want Harvard's president to make glib pronouncements. But Bok said in August that he made his June speech without reviewing Faculty reports on ROTC, without knowing whether enough students wanted ROTC back to provide the minimum enrollment for establishing a unit, without consulting Faculty for their recollections of 1969, or reviewing reports of that Spring's events to see if his charges were...