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...conflicting forces, concealed by a common hostility to the West, shape the crisis in the Arab states today, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor and James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, stated in an article in this month's Atlantic...
...special supplement on "The Arab World," Professor Gibb asserted that the momentum toward authoritarian national regimes is opposed by "tentative movements to rebuild the social organism on Islamic principles, and so create a moral reunion of the Arab peoples...
...Gibb calls the masses "not narrowly national, but pan-Arab," although they lack a basic social philosophy or institutions to canalize their will...
...inaccuracies are disturbingly frequent; the lead article talks about "casting aspirations on"; Sir Hamilton Gibb is mistakenly called a spring term appointment; Alfred North Whitehead was not a University Professor. For the fourth successive year, the ski team's lack of distinction is blamed on lack of snow, despite the fact that there was a record fall this year. The book's polls are almost useless. Only three of them add up to 100% of those polled. One amounts to 121%, one to 97%, two to 96%; one each to 95%, 94%, 93%, 92%, and 91%. In response...
Vastly more important that mere technical boundaries was the addition of more scholars to the University staff. Frye, brilliant young linguist and historian, had carried much of the load himself until Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb was appointed University Professor and Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic in 1954. Langer calls him "one of the very greatest living Arabists," and with his special interest the impact of the West upon Arab Society, the British scholar is certain to be a continuing inspiration for the Center...