Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recently the History Department denied Assistant Professor of History Catherine Clinton promotion to an associate professorship. "Any history department which doesn't have a Women's Studies professor, looks as ridiculous as one that doesn't teach the French Revolution," Suleiman says, adding that pressure to keep up with other universities would ensure that the Harvard history department would have a scholar on the history of women in America...
Takemi Ueno's junior-year tutor in History and Literature, graduate student Leslie Choquette '78, tells an interesting story about their initial meeting in September 1985. Having assigned French historian Georges LeFebrve's 600-plus page biography of Napoleon as the first week's reading, Choquette fully expected Ueno to arrive shell-shocked, as had all of her previous tutees. Not so Ueno. Although the modus vivendi of the assignment had been to encourage students "to learn how to skim, to pick and choose," Ueno walked into tutorial, obviously having read and absorbed the entire work, and inquired...
...merely par for the course for this senior whiz kid from Williston, Long Island. Born on June 8, 1966, to Japanese parents who met as students at the University of Pennsylvania, Ueno has been wowing her teachers and fellow students since grammar school. In sixth grade she began studying French, the first of five languages she has mastered, including Latin, German, Japanese and Italian. In the tenth grade as a student at the Wheatley School in Old Westbury, N.Y., at the instigation of her history teacher, she completed, in addition to her regular course work, three long-term projects, research...
...dramas and scandals over the past 20 years--Vietnam, Watergate, Wall Street--suddenly has had an impact," says Dillon Professor of French Civilization Stanley Hoffmann, who teaches a course on "Ethics and International Relations" at Harvard. Hoffmann adds that the country must now try to regain and transmit its values...
...adds that by requiring all the nations to agree to work together in order to get U.S. aid, the Marshall Plan effectively pulled in the French government which had been the most aggressively anti-German of the victorious European nations...