Word: fairbanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John King Fairbank, LL.D., director of the East Asian Research Center at Harvard...
...writes like a man who has remembered everything and learned nothing. Recalling his library-raiding tour of USIS offices in Europe with G. David Schine, he admits that it might have been unnecessary to remove Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, but he still implies that John K. Fairbank's commendable classic, The United States and China, is somehow subversive-and quotes a paragraph out of context to prove...
...years at Cambridge, England followed and then Thomson came to Harvard to work for his doctorate under Professor Fairbank. Before completing his thesis, however, he went to Washington to work for Chester Bowles in 1958, for whom he had previously worked during Bowles' congressional campaign. Thomson's thesis--on U.S.-China relations in the 1930's--was finished "on nights and weekends" in Washington...
...least popular resolution was sponsored by Fairbank and Professor I. Milton Sachs of Brandeis. Their position, the most "hawkish" of the four, called upon the U.S. to "de-emphasize bombing and reliance on firepower in general, and to greatly and rapidly increase our support of political and social programs through military 'clear and hold' operations rather than 'search and destroy' missions...
SACHS made an impassioned speech in favor of his resolution, and later echoed even more passionately his earlier charges of "conspiracy." He protested the "ungentlemanly" hissing from the audience, and to emphasize his disapproval, stormed out of the meeting. Fairbank commented, "it seems that Milton got a bit wrought...