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...abandonment of the "lost territories." A poll by the authoritative Aliens-bach Institute this year showed that only 28% of West Germans still believe that Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia will ever be returned to Germany-compared with 66% in 1953. But 23% is still a good-sized practical fragment to deal with...
...from any serious enterprise of professional training. Such training simply cannot be properly conducted by one or two designated persons or by a small Arts and Science committee, nor can such a Committee command the requisite energy and range for maintaing relationships with schools and school people. To fragment the School and absorb it into the departments would, moreover, change the whole quality of the enterprise. In the Arts and Science fram-work, where the dominant ethos is that of advanced research and scholarship, the outlook of professional education would be relegated to a lower rank. Nor is it clear...
...many specialists) almost everything Miller has to say about the life of the popular intellect in the first half of the nineteenth century will be new. No one else has ever approached the American past quite as Miller did, and his method stands in greater relief in this fragment than in his other books, largely because so much of the conventional history is familiar to us. Standard histories rarely discuss--rarely mention--the events and personalities Miller so vividly presents to us: the Great Awakening of 1857-58, the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney's revivals, the codifying patriotism of David...
...fragment, now brown and with age, torn and faded places, was begun in 1753, Adams was a sophomore Harvard. For two years made sporadic, usually entries in the book, covered an incredible array of related subjects. In one he notes material covered science lectures. Elsewhere reflects on the state of human and at one point on the possibility of moral- among animal tribes...
Resnais seems to have discovered an extensive correspondence between the mind's eye and a more or less controlled movie camera. The succession of shots in a given sequence, each reproducing a fragment of a whole experience, resembles the process of association of images or ideas by which the mind constructs its own "space and time...