Word: gordon
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...equally comfortable with Plato, Aristotle, de Tocqueville, Marx and Weber as with Chinese thinkers," said Professor of History Andrew D. Gordon '74, director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies...
Colleagues said this constant comparing of Chinese ideas to Western ones was one of Schwartz's lasting contributions to East Asian scholarship. He was what Gordon called an "obsessive relativizer...
...Gordon first met Schwartz in 1970, when Schwartz taught what is now Historical Studies A-13, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: China...
...liked to tell the story of how he translated the Japanese message of surrender in 1945, Gordon said. He said that he looked up the word "surrender" in the dictionary two or three times to be sure he had it right...
...times since I began my freshman year. I have a nose ring, and I enjoy wearing black clothes. I also have a 3.88 G.P.A. We should be focusing our diagnostic attentions on the problematic sources that lurk at levels far below the superficiality of clothing and hair color. SARAH GORDON Bellevue, Wash...