Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single one of the indigenous languages of sub-Saharan Africa (estimated to number anywhere from 200 to 1200) is taught as a serious and separate course. Harvard also has two other departments (Comparative Literature and Linguistics) and a related program (Ukranian) whose primary concern is the study of European languages and/or literatures--not to mention the Department of English (and American) Literature and Language--which would increase the number of professors involved in language instruction to more than one hundred...
...wish to minimize the importance of the study of European languages and literatures; on the contrary, we hope that the University will continue to support and strengthen their study. But, if the University is a place of learning, teaching, research, and scholarship, it should engage in those pursuits with fairness and objectivity...
...relevant languages. How many people in this University respect a foreigner who claims to be an expert in American culture but knows not a word of English? Does one not take for granted that Africans who want to learn about Europe should have some first-hand knowledge of some European languages and literatures...
...very valuable to the student of early Christian, Jewish, and Islamic literature and history. For the scholar interested in solving a puzzle of history, Meroitic, a cursive form of writing from ancient Kush, offers limitless opportunities. Egyptian, Meroitic, and Ge'ez developed into written forms much earlier than most European languages; they are as important for the study of ancient African civilizations as Greek and Latin are for ancient European civilizations. It should also be noted that Egyptian preceded every European language, including Greek, in written form and holds greater importance for our understanding of the whole ancient world before...
...threw its full support behind a bill to repeal the Byrd Amendment. Under that act, sponsored by Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr., the U.S. has been importing Rhodesian chrome, in violation of a U.N. trade boycott, since 1971. Though many nations-including the Soviet Union and four other East European countries, according to allegations contained in a recent U.N. Sanctions Committee report -have been breaking the boycott on chrome clandestinely, the Byrd Amendment's open defiance of the U.N. sanctions has caused great resentment in black Africa. Repeal of that amendment would be Washington's strongest message...