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...Turbulent Life. Professor Bergin begins his book with vivid chapters on Dante's century and Dante's life. It was the century of Cimabue and Giotto, of St. Francis, St. Dominic and St. Thomas: an epoch of religious renascence that brought forth two major religious orders and the last great golden flower of Scholastic philosophy. But it was also the age of Marco Polo, Charles of Valois and Roger Bacon: an epoch of magnificent secular energy that propelled the rise of the middle classes and the independent city states, divided Italy between the party of the Pope (Guelph...
...freed slaves. Stampp does not convince me that when the influence of the Federal government was gone, the Negroes, whatever their gains economically and educationally, could have sustained themselves. The inevitable failure of Reconstruction, not the specific mistakes of men and of policies, make it a truly tragic epoch...
...Paris erupted with fireworks, flowers and music on V-E day, West Germany's Bundestag, not surprisingly, voted down any German notation of the anniversary. "We truly have no occasion to celebrate this day," said Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in a moving speech. "The guilt and fate of this epoch of our history will not leave us for generations." Moscow, however, was determined to rub it in on the West Germans. Premier Aleksei Kosygin flew to East Berlin to join Puppet Walter Ulbricht and Poland's Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz in a parade of thousands of Russian and East German...
Such new problems only served to underscore the new epoch in communications that rose with the drum-shaped, 85-lb. satellite. In an age fast growing familiar with man's race beyond the confines of his own world, Early Bird reached back toward the earth and seemed to shrink it almost to room size. All by itself, the satellite blanketed more than one-third of the globe. If two more soar into orbit, for the first time in history it will be literally true that for every nation instant contact will be possible with every inhabited spot on earth...
...merits of creating an upper-level Social Sciences course on Soviet civilization. There is little debate over the general need and value of learning about the Soviet Union. The country stands as the antithetical counterpart to the United States, and is the most prominent exponent of one of this epoch's two great social movements. Frequent discussion of Communism and the USSR and high enrollments in Soviet courses taught in the University reflect the strong desire at Harvard to know about the Soviet world...