Word: foreign
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...originally told the Soc Rel 149 steering committee that the course belongs in Gen Ed because of its "general" content. Gen Ed, however, does not offer only courses of general content. It offers some highly specific courses for nonconcentrators, to fulfill distribution requirements. Soc Sci 100 (International Politics and Foreign Policy in Postwar Western Europe) could just as easily be in the Government Department, Soc Sci 11 (History of East Asian Civilization) could be in History, Nat Sci 9 (the Astronomical Perspective) could certainly be in Astronomy, and so on. Also, Brown is employing a curious double standard when...
...seems that in the past sixty years our culture has taken such a sharp turn that the problem in England and the United States lies in a re-interpretation of our own culture--Milton's milieu or earlier--a culture almost as foreign to us as the Greeks or Romans were to our literary fore-bearers...
Throughout it all, Gruening has remained a liberal. His analysis of the causes of the Vietnam war goes no deeper than the personality of President Johnson: he sees the war and all the other disasters of American foreign policy as errors that could have been avoided by wiser leaders. His approach to politics is largely unanalytical and moralistic: his radicalism, if it can be called that, is of a traditionally American sort. What distinguishes Gruening from his liberal colleagues in the Senate is not his ideology, but his extraordinary courage and vigor. He spoke out against...
...after two Biblical predecessors, Jezebel's daughter Athaliah and Queen Alexandra). A longtime aide to Premier David Ben-Gurion, who once called her "the only man in my Cabinet" because she firmly backed his hard-lining policies toward the Arabs, she served as Labor Minister, and later as Foreign Minister for ten years. In 1966, she retired from the government, but until last summer remained Secretary General of the Israel Labor Party...
Last week Dayan let it be known that he would support Mrs. Meir for the premiership but would oppose any other candidate, whether Allon or such dark-horse possibilities as Secretary-General of the Labor Party Pinhas Sapir or Foreign Minister Abba Eban. The decision was prudent on Dayan's part, since he would stand little chance of winning a party fight with Mrs. Meir...