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...timely translation of La Renaissance Orientale comes nearly 35 years after being overlooked following its original publication in 1950. Currently considered to be the apogee of Schwab's career, it represents an invaluable legacy to Orientalism, a field popularized in the '50s by Edward Said, who wrote Schwab's foreward...
Said notes in the foreward that one could better describe Schwab as an "Oreinteur" than an "Orientalist," Indeed Schwab's intimate style maintains a respectful appreciation for his subject, the Orient, of which he remarked himself. "Perhaps no single other term has been so loaded with emotion, even passion" in the history of western consciousness. His philosophical critique not only traces changing perceptions of the Orient, the Other, but in the process goes to the roots of western intellectual history to illuminate changes in the Occidental self-image as well...
...could be the stars on the field mat turn Saturday's match-up into a classic. Brown will showcase not only Kostic but also high-scoring foreward Lynn Marinello...
There are three marked weaknesses to Kiernan's biography, one of which the author could do little about: the lack of information from Arafat himself. As Kiernan explains in his foreward, upon launching the book he asked for and received Arafat's promise of assistance. But when Kiernan returned to the PLO leader in 1975, it became clear that his expectations differed from those of Arafat's, who had pictured the biography as a propaganda vehicle and refused to help Kiernan dig below the myth which his subject had so carefully constructed. Kiernan relied for most of his information...
...report. Instead, he simply repeated the inaccuracies of an earlier Crimson account. In fact, as Professor Bell points out, our report was debated and not rejected at the Commission's Kyoto meeting last June; and since then the Commission's has sponsored its publication in book form, with a foreward by the director of the Commission, and has devoted a great deal of money and energy to publicizing the report and disseminating it as widely as possible. If this constitutes "rejection," one wonders how Mr. Kaplan would define "acceptance...